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Tiny Dark Sweat Bee.

All Bee Species, Bee Species and Life cycle and Habits, Dark Sweat Bee, Sweat Bee, Vilcabamba Ecuador S.America Flowers, Vilcabamba Ecuador South America Bee Life

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Tiny Dark Sweat Bee on tiny white flowers called alyssum. These dark sweat bees are quit small and can be confused to be a fly.

Tiny Dark Sweat Bee.

The small hanging bunch of white alyssum flowers hangs over the flower basket on the porch. The sweat bee was noticed foraging on these tiny flowers.

A few bees were coming and had pollen collected on their legs.

a dark sweat bee flying to some alyssum flowers

So small that you could not see it with your naked eye.

almost there is the tiny dark sweat bee

All bees are pollinators, even if they don’t provide honey. The pollen is used to bring up their young and for food for them as well. learn about their life cycle.

dark sweat bee full of pollen on tiny flowers

A photo zoomed in for the capture of this tiny dark bee, foraging on the tiny flowers as well.

dark sweat bee on white tiny flowers

As small as the flower and the bee is note the legs spread out to hold on with, full of pollen. Busy little bees on these sweet smelling alyssums.

Some other interesting photos and information on sweat bees.

  1. How to live with sweat bees
  2. The honey bee and sweat bee on flowers (shows you the size of bees)
  3. The green sweat bee pollination flowers
  4. Green sweat bee on sunflowers
  5. Dark sweat bee
  6. Bees foraging on wild flowers
  7. Sweat bees foraging poppy flowers
  8. Garden poppies and dark sweat bees

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