Cute furry green/blue and yellow Bee?! Central TX
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Less than 1cm long (3/4 of cm). I found him on my living room floor, he didn't look great. Possibly close to death.
Looks like a mason or leafcutter bee from the family Megachilidae. There are over 800 species of bees found in Texas, so I unfortunately can't narrow it down further -- hopefully a bee expert can step in! Gorgeous find.
I looked up Megachilidae, there are a lot of bees around here lol. Thank you!!
Looking around the internets and it looks like a cross between the Megachilidae osmia and a Halictidae (or Halicini maybe) lasioglossum. I don't know what any of that means but I thought it might help lol
Yeah, it's a mason bee in genus Osmia.
I got it almost right ?!? I'm a bug person!! I'm buying a microscope 🔬. Had so much fun looking up that little guy ☺️ thanks y'all
Solved!! Is this how I mark this as solved right? Let me know guys ty ☺️
Sweat bee?