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Metallic Green Sweat Bee

Agapostemon virescens

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35.1777, -80.8482

Field Notes

Description:

metallic brilliant green head and thorax; about 10 mm

Habitat:

found on guara flowers; urban schoolyard

Notes:

also called Virescent or Bicolored Agapostemon

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Comments (1)
triggsturner
Gorgeous little bees. Thank you for sharing this Charlotte.

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Mission
Global Schoolyard Bioblitz!
Photographed
PublishedJune 15, 2017

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