Blueberry Digger

Blueberry Digger Bee/Habropoda laboriosa hard at work not on blueberry flowers, rare around here, but on Japanese Andromeda/Pieris japonica. This bee is reminiscent of the Eastern Carpenter Bee, but has a long tongue so can enter these flowers from the top, as it were, while the relatively small-tongued ECB, which is a much larger bee overall, cuts in from the side to “steal” nectar.