#Bugsky 🐙🌿 Shared with me by a fof in SoCal - this is a gynandromorph (both male & female) valley carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina). Females are black, males orange, so the extreme color dimorphism really stands out. Per Doug Yanega at UC Riverside, bee gynandromorphs he’s seen are mosaic instead—

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"why the long face" gave me a good laugh, thank you for that

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I also made a turntable of this parasitic wasp. I think Enicospilus myricae is really lovely and elegant. (It’s on my contact page on miekeroth.com , but I forgot the link I made for it was not relative so it didn’t show for a while. Now it is again)

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