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Found in a shell under a bush, buried in leaves, was very docile and beautiful. Stayed with me for like 45 mins, crawled out onto my hand to tell me when he had to go, flew similar to a beetle steady n straight.

I saw this lone bee returning to pollinate sheep laurel. There was another one of these bees but it didn't want to be bothered.

@dmantack Any idea if this is the specialist bee? I might have to come out in the morning to see more of them.

This was on the small area that seem to be the most undisturbed of the sand dunes with a consistency like beach sand and like the sand plain in Bloomfield. It was less a mixture of sand and silt and other fine material. The plant was not very abundant in this area or elsewhere but we did see more specimens up on some of the hills. This one had a single pinkish purple flower. It also had structures that looked kind of like bean pods.

These bees came to my light sheet. They have the large eyes of drones and are about honey bee sized but have very hairy legs. This is the first ime I have had any sort of bees coming to the light sheet.

This has got to be the most morbid thing that I have ever found in nature that I photographed. A deer that had its stomach opened up and was being eaten by magpies while still alive. This was something that I just never saw on any of my frequent trips to Yellowstone NP when I was younger. It was very unsettling.