Native bees working male flowers for pollen

[Old Piney]

I had a male Moroccan Beldia plant isolated outside for pollen collection .One morning I found it in a cloud of little native bees ( messing up my pollen collecting ) These little bees were definitely working it for pollen.Any one experience this. This is not a good pic they all flew away there is one at the bottom right

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[blondie]

Hard to tell what that is. I see white spots all over your plant. Could the “bees” be something else, feeding on small insects? Or is that pollen on the leaves? Did you happen to see pollen sacks somewhere on the bee body? When pollen is plentiful you can see large pollen balls on legs of honey bees at least. To answer your question, I’ve never seen it but I’ve never left a male outside before either. Hopefully you can get enough pollen. Good luck.

 

[goingrey]

Wow, a golden bee.

 

[Frosty Nuggets]

That's not a bee.

 

[Old Piney]

That is a native bee ,honey bees ( AKA Itailain honey bees ) are nonnative to the Americas .To be more specific It's a sweat bee . Altogether there are over 4000 species of native bees in North America