Subject: Happy Halloween! Geographic location of the bug: Coryell County, Texas Date: 10/14/2021 Time: 01:48 AM EDT Your letter to the bugman: Hello again! I hope you are all well. Many insects in this photo, and I only know one, I think, a green lynx spider with prey. This photo is titled Macabre Magnolia in … Read more
Subject: Metalic Green Bee (Agapostemon) Geographic location of the bug: Central Mississippi Date: 07/29/2019 Time: 03:38 PM EDT Your letter to the bugman: Hi! I got this lovely picture with my macro lens – thought you might like to add it to the page for this bee! 🙂 How you want your letter signed: Elizabeth … Read more
Subject: Sweat Bee? Geographic location of the bug: Silverdale, WA Date: 09/28/2018 Time: 04:28 AM EDT Your letter to the bugman: I’m not sure if this is a sweat bee (possibly Agapostemon splendens) or some type of Flower loving or Syrphid fly. It was roughly 1/3 inch in length, give or take a few millimeters. … Read more
Subject: Metallic green bee Geographic location of the bug: Belton South Carolina Date: 07/24/2018 Time: 01:04 PM EDT Your letter to the bugman: I saw these metallic green and yellow bees on the ground over pile of dirt. What I thought was yellow now I’m thinking that it might be just pollen. But they are … Read more
Subject: Metallic Green Sweat Bee Geographic location of the bug: Powhatan, VA Date: 09/01/2017 Time: 10:40 AM EDT I have lived in this area for many years and never noticed this type of bee. My fiance’ planted an African Blue Basil plant that is flourishing and it had a couple dozen of these bees all … Read more
Subject: Not a Fly Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada August 12, 2017 2:42 pm Hi Bugman, Like most, I stumbled upon your website looking for the identity of a little buddy I found lazily buzzing through my office. At first, I thought it was a green bottle fly, but on closer inspection its head resembles that … Read more