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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.

Notes:

http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:1d…

Reference Links:

Lasioglossum (Parasphecodes) sulthicum / Observations

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Comments (4)
Mark Ridgway
In Australia all the big stuff has been seen and named so that's boring. The small stuff is only about 5% discovered.
James McNair
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!
Sergio Monteiro
Awesome! I guess how hard it is to fly with all that weight attached to the body!

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PublishedOctober 17, 2014

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