Flying Bumble Bee (Bombus huntii)

arge bumble bee (Bombus huntii) flies toward the camera after collencting nectar from a rhododendron flower

Native Green Bee (Andrena ilicis)

This lovely native bee was buzzing around the blooms of a flowering tree in Travis County, Texas. 



native green bee (Andrena ilicis)



native green bee (Andrena ilicis)


Notice this older worker (below), covered in pollen and with tattered wings, as she approaches the end of her useful life.