National Geographic Feature on Bee Portraits

Carpenter Bee

Crow Bee

The Halictus ligatus favors sunflowers and black-eyed susans

Western Honey Bee

Apis mellifera

Sweat Bee

Augochloropsis sumptuosa is a sand specialist in dune areas

Solitary Bee

Anthophora affabilis uses its tongue to reach into trunmpet-shaped flowers

Common Bumblebee

Bombus griseocollis

Sweat Bee

Augochloropsis metallica

Yellow-faced Bee

This Hylaeus modestus is half the size of a grain of rice. They also ingest and carry their pollen internally

Photography by Sam Droege, USGS