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28-07-2011, 09:31 AM
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| | | Miner bee with odd "extra" on it's head
Took these photos of a small miner bee on a merguerite flower but noticed it had an odd spiky appendage on it's head- not sure if it's just debris or something else but it does remind of something i've seen before and cannot find the shot.
Any thoughts ?- the 2nd shot is a crop of the first.
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28-07-2011, 12:25 PM
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| | | Re: Miner bee with odd "extra" on it's head
Intriguing. Clumps of purple pollen perhaps? Orchid pollinia stick to bees' heads but I don't think they look quite like that. Who will tell us...? Rob
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28-07-2011, 07:05 PM
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| | | Re: Miner bee with odd "extra" on it's head
Evening Rob,
It looks like some kind of pollen grain to me.
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29-07-2011, 05:04 AM
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| | | Re: Miner bee with odd "extra" on it's head
Thanks for the ideas Rob and Jason - suspect it might be pollen. Eventually remembered what I thought it could of been- Laboulbeniales - a very odd fungus group that grown on bugs but don't think it is that.
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29-07-2011, 05:13 AM
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| | | Re: Miner bee with odd "extra" on it's head
Some kind of small fruiting body was another thought of mine, but it looks better for pollen to me. | | |
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