Hylaeus floridanus. In rough translation this would be the "Florida Masked Bee." Tiny, grain of rice things, and usually mistaken for wasps as they carry their pollen internally rather than in their body hairs like other bees. Thus they have reverted to the wasp shape from whence bees came. This is a rare species collected by Heather Campbell as part of her survey of a sandhill area of North Carolina. I enjoy the crispness of the these bees, their alien eye glamour, and the color pop of the interference patterns in their wings and their Photo by Wayne Boo