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Overloaded halictid bee

Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) sulthicum

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

I thought I was chasing a pure gold bee around for quite a while. Only later at home I realised this was a black bee almost totally covered with pollen. Ha!

Habitat:

On black wattle in a local nature reserve.

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Comments (4)

In Australia all the big stuff has been seen and named so that's boring. The small stuff is only about 5% discovered.
So Mark, how did you develop your interest in the small stuff like bugs, slime mold etc? You seem more into that than the larger stuff!
Awesome! I guess how hard it is to fly with all that weight attached to the body!

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