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Female Valley Carpenter Bee

Posted by May 6th, 2007 at 12:00 am

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Valley Carpenter Bee

We photographed the female Valley Carpenter Bee covered in pollen as she gathered nectar from our sweet peas. When she is gathering the pollen from the sweet peas, the blossoms pistel pushes up through the petals and caresses the bee, and is fertilized by the pollen trapped on the bees fuzzy body.

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