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Photo by KarenL
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Field Notes

Description:

Tiny (about 3mm long) sweat bee.

Habitat:

Butterfly garden

Notes:

On butterfly weed

Species ID Suggestions

Neon Cuckoo Bee

Thyreus nitidulus

Comments (25)

Thank you Gilma & Joshua! It's a bee of some kind but not sure of the species.
beautiful! what a great array of complimentary colors ;)
Thank you Cammie & Dina! Juan, I only took a couple because the light was starting to fade & it was hard to focus on such a small & fast subject. I think the other is a bit out of focus but I will try & sharpen the image a bit & add it later.
This is a male bee. If you have more pictures I can try an identification
Beautiful colors!
I was very lucky with the light kristen! I'm guessing either a sweat bee or a cuckoo bee.
There were a were a few Claire, but they were so tiny that I had no idea how pretty they were until I downloaded my photos!
Wow! That is really different...I've never seen that species on a milkweed.
Thank you sunny & Yuriana!

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