Yesterday I witnessed a behaviour I never expected from a solitary bee: she unloaded all its pollen baskets onto a leaf, then tasted it, and soom after flew off, releasing a cloud of pixie dust as she jumped and beat its wings down to take of. As if she had had a change of heart, and the pollen wasn't good enough?

Lasioglossum sp. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/183728376

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