I feel the species that Bhagyashri ji had posted is different. There are several species of *Amegilla*. I am not sure about idying species of bees by looking at pictures. Even entomologists wouldn't try that. Because they need to get the minute characters of the insect. Here I feel that the species of Amegilla posted by Neil ji is different from that of Bhagyashri ji's picture.
Regards, Giby On 24 May 2012 13:01, Neil Soares <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Affirmative. This is the Blue-banded Bee [Amegilla cingulata]. Sending a > few of my photographs taken on my property at Shahapur. > With regards, > Neil Soares. > > --- On *Thu, 5/24/12, Bhagyashri <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Bhagyashri <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [efloraofindia:117514] efloraofindia:''For Id 240520121MR1’’ > ?fluorescent beetle on Ecbolium ligustrinum at Pune > To: "Giby Kuriakose" <[email protected]> > Cc: "efloraofindia" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, May 24, 2012, 12:44 PM > > > 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]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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]<http://us.mc339.mail.yahoo.com/mc/[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 > > -- 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
