Centris decolorata, F, Face, Puerto Rico
Second in a Series. Centris, the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers. Collected by Sara Prado in Puerto Rico and Photographed by Wayne Boo. Original public domain image from Flickr