{"id":2235,"date":"2015-07-15T09:49:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T13:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=2235"},"modified":"2015-07-15T10:02:47","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:02:47","slug":"metallic-green-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/2015\/07\/15\/metallic-green-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Metallic Green Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metallic green bees sometimes known by their genus name <em>Agapostemon<\/em> are native to the Americas.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n <div id=\"attachment_2233\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Virescent-Green-Metallic-Bee-female.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2233\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Virescent-Green-Metallic-Bee-female.jpg\" alt=\"Female Virescent Green Metallic Bee.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"840\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2233\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Virescent-Green-Metallic-Bee-female.jpg 1600w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Virescent-Green-Metallic-Bee-female-300x158.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Virescent-Green-Metallic-Bee-female-1024x538.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A female virescent green metallic bee (<em>Agapostemon virescens<\/em>), in <a href=\"\/places\/canada\/ontario\/toronto\/#Scarborough\" title=\"Toronto\">Scarborough<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Metallic green bees, unlike many of their fellow <a href=\"\/tag\/hymenoptera\/\" title=\"Hymenoptera\"><em>Hymenoptera<\/em><\/a> are <em>non-eusocial<\/em> bees. Some species of <em>Agapostemon<\/em> are communal and multiple females might nest together as a protection against kleptoparasitic bees that would steal their food. Other species of Metallic green bees are solitary and dig their burrows in the ground alone.<\/p>\n<p>Metallic green bees, like most bees, feed their larvae pollen and nectar.<\/p>\n<p>Metallic green bees are highly photogenic and make I thought a picture of this virescent green metallic bee makes nice eye candy.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"further-readings-title\">Further Readings:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"further-readings\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/frametoframe.ca\/2014\/07\/green-metallic-bee-toronto-flower-garden\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Green Metallic Bees In My Toronto Flower Garden\">Green Metallic Bees In My Toronto Flower Garden<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/594129\" title=\"Agapostemon\" target=\"_blank\">Agapostemon<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/bugguide.net\/\" title=\"BugGuide.net\" target=\"_blank\">BugGuide.net<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Agapostemon\" title=\"Agapostemon\" target=\"_blank\">Agapostemon <\/a>on Wikipedia.<br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metallic green bees sometimes known by their genus name Agapostemon are native to the Americas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[65,93,38,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teleonomix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}