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This is a Blue Banded Bee..I hadn't seen any before so when I spotted them in my backyard I took some photos hoping to identify them. I was surprisingly pleased with the results as they were hand held.
Bindii - great shot !!!!
They are a beautiful bee huh? I love the way they sleep with their mandibles (mouthparts) firmly grasping a stem, while lifting their abdomen and back legs up .... I'll have to do some searching to find out why they do that !!! Well done again Rel Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships! -Ansel Adams
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Nice shots Bindii. You've done well catching it mid air.
Rel, That would be great if you could find out. Ever since I found some in my backyard I've been wondering why they sleep like that. And is it true they prefer to sleep on plants with blue flowers?
Don't think so = I usually find them sleeping in my backyard on long grass stems - we have a whole patch of grass I don't mow, as we have double bar finches coming for the grass seed  Basically, my backyard is a 'weed-a-corium' Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships! -Ansel Adams
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Thanks once again for everyones comments! As to why they sleep with their mandables grasping the stem I asked a proffesor from one of the universities - I emailed him the pics when I first took them to have them identified..he bought them btw... - and he said that they think they dont seem to have a lot of grip with their feet so they use their mandables instead.
They seem to be interesting critters, they are supposed to prefer blue flowers but I at the time I had blue flowers in the garden yet they only went for the yellow ones. They are common, although these are the first I have seen, and at my place they sleep on the long fern stems..never flowers.. 
good stuff bindi
I really like the flight action in the first shot but I like the details in the second also. Steve check out my image gallery @
http://photography.avkomp.com/gallery3
They don't have their eyes shut - how can they be asleep then? 
Excedllent work there Bindii! Cheers Graham
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