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jenhillphoto Danbury, CT(Zone 6a) Aug 14, 2008

I shot this video of a bee on my artichoke flower yesterday morning. What kind of bee is this? There's also a green fly that gets on the flower about halfway into it. Anyone know what he is? Here is the video.

Jen

http://www.vimeo.com/1522711

Tip: you will need a good internet connection to view this. Some have better results starting the video and then pausing it and letting some buffer build before viewing it.

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jenhillphoto Danbury, CT(Zone 6a) Aug 14, 2008

Here is a still photo too. I don't have a still photo of the fly.

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jenhillphoto Danbury, CT(Zone 6a) Aug 14, 2008

Also, while I was photographing and filming, this other bee/wasp like thing kept bother the bigger bee that I was originally trying to photograph. Sorry this is a bit blurred, but they were in motion and it was really just luck that I got the shot. Anyone know what this guy is? And why was he bothering the bee?

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Aug 14, 2008

The large bee is a bumble bee, possibly the common eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) - see http://people.virginia.edu/~thr8z/Bee_Diversity/LinkPhotos2/Bombus_impatiens.jpg
The smaller bee may be one of the so-called long-horned bees (because of their long antennae), such as those in the genus Eucera - see http://bugguide.net/node/view/54812/bgpage
I'm not going to hazard a guess at the fly.

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jenhillphoto Danbury, CT(Zone 6a) Aug 14, 2008

Okay, that's good, because I'm always calling them bumble bees. I have lots of them in my garden.

So why was the long-horned bee bothering the bumble bee?

Thanks!

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Aug 14, 2008

I don't think that the smaller bee was deliberately provoking the bumble bee; they just appeared focused on the same part of the flower at the same time.

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jenhillphoto Danbury, CT(Zone 6a) Aug 14, 2008

Actually, that smaller bee never landed directly on the flower. He kept landing on the bumble bee. I saw it do the same thing the day before. There's plenty of flower to go around. There were multiple bumble bees on there at the same time, although I didn't have my camera handy at the time.

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