Showing posts with label Sweat bees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sweat bees. Show all posts

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Sweat bees

I need to thank Grant Burleigh on iSpot for identifying these as sweat bees Lasioglossum sp.




They are only small - about 1cm. long - but they seem powerfully attracted to marjoram flowers. There are dozens of them on the plants in our herb patch.






































When they weren't feeding they congregated on a dead shoot of the plant. There are about a dozen here and I suspect that most of them are males, with a single female in there somewhere.