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Hoplitis albifrons, f, face, Mariposa CA
Dark Bee. Some bees are all black, black hairs, black integument (skin), little reflection. This makes for somewhat eerie photography, a gothic presentation of a species that does not care what we think. Northern and mountain in distribution across both sides of the continent. This one from way up in Yosemite National Park in California. Collected by Claire Kremen's bee team and photographed by Anders Croft.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
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" Ode on a Grecian Urn"
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