Blue-banded Bee loves tomato flowers

1. Blue banded bee

2. blue banded bee
probably eying the naked tomato flower, ready for a dive.

3. Blue banded bee

4. Blue banded bee
plunging horizontally

5. Blue banded bee

6. Blue banded bee

7. Blue banded bee

8. Blue banded bee
showing its very long tongue ready to dip into nectar

This blue banded bee is so special. It darts quickly all over the place, with a fixed mission to suck as much nectar as possible. As it darts, it rest and stays stationary for a second extra, before going into a nectar dip.  Just look at the length of its tongue in the last photo.., almost the length of its own body. The normal bees do not show such peculiarity.

The blue banded bee comes around solo, and it will always do so, and will always look for the blooms of tomato.

~bangchik
Putrajaya Malaysia.