nev , 2 months ago

Stopped by Christie Pits on my way back from a dentist appointment today. Wasn't really expecting to find much given how much foot traffic and how little "wild" space there is, but to my astonishment there were a few different kinds of bees making burrows in sandy patches on the sunny hillside!

There were fluffy white-and-black mining bees (skittish, hard to get photos) and smaller, more docile metallic olive-green sweat bees.

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Full view of one of the mining bees. It's black with white fluff.
The face of a metallic olive-green sweat bee as it climbs over a tiny clump of dirt in search of a good burrow site.
One of the sweat bees as seen from above. It's a lovely metallic olive green with pale yellow fluff on its legs and around its head, but not quite as fluffy as the mining bees.