Ctenocolletes smaragdinus, f, australia, face
Appropriately coming from the latin noun for emerald, comes this large lovely from western Australia. From the Packer Lab
The murmuring of bees has ceased;
But murmuring of some
Posterior, prophetic,
Has simultaneous come,--
The lower metres of the year,
When nature's laugh is done,--
The Revelations of the book
Whose Genesis is June.
-Emily Dickinson. Original public domain image from Flickr