[Leica] IMG: Rose of Sharon Visitors

[Aram Langhans]

Does not look like any leafcutter bee I have ever collected, but i will  
look a bit further.  You attract some good stuff to your garden.

Did you see the underside of the abdomen?  Leafcutters, at least those 
that I know, carry the pollen on the underside of their abdomen.

Aram

On 8/19/2021 3:43 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> Thinking the Leafcutter Bee might have just been a lost stray, I took 
> another look today. No, there were several of them back at work today. 
> Didn't get a face shot, but here is another look at the hairy bands.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210819-P8190328-Enhanced.JPG.html 
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>
> I seldom see butterflies on the Rose of Sharon, but this 
> Silver-Spotted Skipper seemed right at home there.
>
> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20210819-P8190330-Enhanced.JPG.html 
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Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
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