Stopped by Christie Pits on my way back from a dentist appointment today. Wasn't really expecting to find much given how much foot traffic and how little "wild" space there is, but to my astonishment there were a few different kinds of bees making burrows in sandy patches on the sunny hillside!

There were fluffy white-and-black mining bees (skittish, hard to get photos) and smaller, more docile metallic olive-green sweat bees.

#bugstodon #insects #bees #NativeBees #Hymenoptera #Anthophila #Andrenidae #Halictidae

Les abelles del gènere Panurginus són unes petites abelles, d'uns 6 mil·límetres, de la família Andrenidae. Aquí podem veure una parella copulant damunt la flor.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/157704488

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