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U.S. Quarter for scale.

Collected the bee during the morning from a flowering chaste-tree in the morning.

I cooled the bee in a refrigerator. Once it was torpid, I took these pictures. Catch & release!

• 13 antennas segments & hind femoral tooth (male)
• bright metallic green head & thorax
• metasoma black- & yellow-banded
• yellow on last two visible sterna
• apical black stripe (~3/4 of tibial length) on posterior surface of hind tibia
• no medial brown/black stripe on anterior surface of hind tibia

Man root on right, man on left. Found excavated by construction activity, took home to nurture, fed tea, then planted in native garden.

*2021 Update: the transplant didn't take and this sweet soul was lost to the world, buried dead as it had been buried alive.