Lasioglossum imitatum, f, face, Frederick, MD
The Lawn Bee. Lasioglossum imitatum. If you are looking for bees in any urban/suburban/highly disturbed habitat in the East, you will find this bee. Small even for a Lasioglossum, it loves whatever conditions it loves about lawns and beat up habitats. A survivor, a crow and sparrow bee that surely is not on the list of declining bees species. To save this bee you should put in a ball diamond. Would it be so easy for the rest of the species. Probably fond of small invasive fast food pollen, I am not sure how much quantification there has been of its diet. Id wise, it has wide cheeks and tiny thick bright white prostrate hairs on its abdomen that occur in nice parallel lines (not too obvious in this series of shots). Picture by Erick Hernandez.
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde. Original public domain image from Flickr