Keywords: bug bugs bee bees pollinator pollinators animal animals animalia arthropod arthropods arthropoda insect insects insecta hymenoptera aculeata anthophila apoidea halictidae halictid halictid bee halictidbee sweat bee sweatbee sweat bees sweatbees halictinae augochlorini augochloropsis metallic iridescent blue blue-green bluegreen augochloropsis sumptuosa augochloropsissumptuosa taxonomy:binomial=augochloropsis sumptuosa taxonomy:binomial=augochloropsissumptuosa biml usgs droege zerene stacker zerenestacker stackshot north carolina northcarolina usgsbiml black background Collected by Heather Campbell in the Sandhills of North Carolina, this very uncommon blue and green metallic bee is exquisite at the macro level and, if you download the original file, at the micro level where the surface of the integument is lushly inscribed with microscopic lines and pits...characteristic of this species Collected by Heather Campbell in the Sandhills of North Carolina, this very uncommon blue and green metallic bee is exquisite at the macro level and, if you download the original file, at the micro level where the surface of the integument is lushly inscribed with microscopic lines and pits...characteristic of this species |