Thank you so much Giby ji for the Id and this very interesting info about the bee. Yes, as you said it was foraging extremely fast for just a few seconds. I hope to spot it resting some day. Nature is amazing: blue colored bee, another shade of blue is the flower and yet another shade of blue the anthers!!. There was another pollinator too foraging the same flower. I will post it separately.
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Giby Kuriakose <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Regards Bhagyashri
