A bee between two foxgloves:
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| Hurry, hurry! So much to harvest, so short a summer! |
I thought at first glance that this was a honeybee; not hairy, brightly striped. Then I looked again. The black section down the centre of the abdomen was not a honeybee pattern. Syrphid flies are patterned like this, but she has the bee antennae, and in another photo, I could see that she's carrying her saddlebags.
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| Half hidden, busy. |
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| Cropped photo, showing her saddlebags. |
I think that she might possibly be a
wool carder bee; I found these on a
list of common pollinators of BC. I'll send a photo in to BugGuide. They will know.
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