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MY MORNING WALK WITH GREEN BEES, ANTS, DAMSELFLIES, HONEYBEES AND BUGS I DON'T KNOW

6/3/2011

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All the elements of exquisite beauty are present. There are 
mesmerizing shapes, colors, texture and such interesting main characters. 
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Honey bee collecting nectar
I googled to figure out what kind of insect I'd photographed below. It had a sparkly green body that made it look a bit like a honey bee dressed in drag. I think they're called sweat bees, named for their habit of landing on people and licking the perspiration from the skin in order to obtain the salt.
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A 'sweat bee' - Agapostemon texanus, Colorado on June 3. 2011
"This family of bees engages in a behavior called sonication, or buzz pollination. The bee places the anther in its jaw and vibrates each flower with its flight muscles, causing pollen to be dislodged. Wild blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) crops are more effectively pollinated through buzz pollination, and sweat bees do pollinate this plant."
source: http://www.nbii.gov

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A 'sweat bee' - Agapostemon texanus, Colorado on June 3. 2011
"These bees visit between four and eight flowers per minute and carry significant pollen loads on their hind legs. Additionally, sweat bees are generalist feeders - they feed on, and subsequently pollinate, many different flower types. These behaviors and adaptations make sweat bees efficient pollinators." source: http://www.nbii.gov
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This little light blue fly-bug pictured above 
(need to find out what it is) 
was about the size of a mosquito.
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Damselfly June 3, 2011
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Damselfly - June 3, 2011
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Honeybee
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    One square mile of land contains more insects than the total number of human beings on earth!

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    It's estimated that there are more than 200 million insects for each human on the planet! 

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    A recent New York Times article claimed that the world holds 300 pounds of insects for every pound of humans.
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