Spring in the Desert
I went on a hike up at a place called Pima Canyon today and the desert is really green!
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Sunday, March 25, 2007
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I went on a hike up at a place called Pima Canyon today and the desert is really green!
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Hi Anna! Really pretty photos. I think the bee is a carpenter bee (Xylocopa), mainly because she is so robust, appears to have really long hairs on her back leg, and darker wings. It's a different species than what is found in Kansas (Xylocopa virginica), but I can't remember the name. Molly may know for sure.
I agree with Jenny. Definitely a female Xylocopa. I took a quick look through the collection here, and my guess would be X. varipunctata. The males are beautiful golden yellow, and the females are black. Check out the cool photos on this website: http://bugguide.net/node/view/13232/bgimage
It certainly does look like the X. varipunctata. Maybe there aren't a ton of large black bees, but I just think it's so cool that you could identify it from my picture. I had thought I missed the bee altogether and was really glad that it was there and in focus. I keep trying to take pictures of pollinators on flowers but usually they are scared away before I get close enough to get a good picture. How do people do it?
Just wanted to check -- Do I post too many pictures?
Plant is a legume but that doesn't limit it much on the desert (or the prairie, or much of anywhere else).
TT, of course we want to see your photos of bees and flowers and hikes . . . and to address the underlying question, WE LOVE YOU AS YOU ARE and we don't mind that you spend your time posting cool pics rather than running stats (and I must suggest that posting photos is a healthier waste of your time [not to mention one that benefits me more]than playing Klondike)
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