Hi, Usually after foraging bees/insects fold back the proboscis and then straighten as it reaches the next flower. But here since the bee is very fast in foraging and movement from flower to flower, it always keep its proboscis strait. It might be a strategy to avoid wasting time and keep the fast movement and foraging. If you follow the bee after visiting certain number of flowers, it rests somewhere and remove pollen grains and dusts from its body
Regards, Giby On 24 May 2012 12:01, Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]> wrote: > It is not a beetle. But it is a species of *Amegilla *bee of Apidae > family. > It is a solitary bee and a good pollinator. > Very fast in movement and foraging nectar within few seconds (1,2 or 3 > sec) it forages nectar from a flower that fit for this bee. > > > Regards, > Giby. > > > > > On 24 May 2012 11:48, Bhagyashri <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> Pune May 2012 >> Would appreciate your help to Id this fluorescent blue colored ?beetle >> on Ecbolium ligustrinum. It was moving very fast making a loud buzzing >> sound. Is it the mouth parts and the eye that is seen in the pic? >> -- >> Thanks and regards >> Bhagyashri >> > > > > -- > GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD > Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), > Royal Enclave, > Jakkur Post, Srirampura > Bangalore- 560064 > India > Phone - +91 9448714856 +919947109987 (Mobile) > visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby > -- GIBY KURIAKOSE PhD Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), Royal Enclave, Jakkur Post, Srirampura Bangalore- 560064 India Phone - +91 9448714856 +919947109987 (Mobile) visit my pictures @ http://www.flickr.com/photos/giby
