Burrowing Bees in Evanston

We came across these black and white abdomen, green eyed bees at an Evanston park. Again, we are making the most of having to run errands, today we drove my brother in law to his new job. We spent way too much time in the car, so once again we found a nearby park to run around in for a while.

In the sand box area I spotted a dead bee. The head was missing, but nonetheless baby girl wanted to put it in her bug jar. Then a bee, same species, flew by and began digging. We waited patiently for him to land and captured him with our jar, upside down.

Shortly thereafter, a 2nd flying bee carrying something yellow flew by, picked a spot in the sand and began digging. He was also captured using a nearby cup and paper from the park. The yellow thing he was carrying looks like a mimic fly.

Burrowing Bees in Evanston, a photo by areyousureaboutthatblog on Flickr.

The 1st burrowing bee made his way to the bottom of the bug jar, and dug his way under the sand he was captured with.

Burrowing Bees in Evanston, a photo by areyousureaboutthatblog on Flickr.

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