A passion for cactus flowers draws these bees, probably Lithurge family, to pollen-rich blooms which last just a day.
My thanks to Terry Griswold of the USDA-ARS Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory at Utah State University, Logan,
for helping identify the bees. Photographs by Neal Ulevich (c) 2002. All rights reserved.
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