A nice fluffy male Centris attripes from Central Texas collected during a family reunion. Centris are large bumble bee sized bees and as you move into desert and tropical area in the Americas the number of bumble bees decline and the number of often oil using Centris species and the equally large Carpenter bees increase.
Images
A nice fluffy male Centris attripes from Central Texas collected during a family reunion. Centris are large bumble bee sized bees and as you move into desert and tropical area in the Americas the number of bumble bees decline and the number of often oil using Centris species and the equally large Carpenter bees increase.
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20decolorata%2C%20F%2C%20back%2C%20Puerto%20Rico%2C%20St.%20Isabel_2014-09-29-15.19.38%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=9i2TGa1C)
Puerto Rico! What a snappy looking bee with its orange, yellow, and glinting blue patterns interspersed with the standard blacks and whites of most bees. How lovely to that this is a bee found in agricultural areas...a sort of Bumble Bee replacement in a land where Bumble Bees don't exist. Collected by Sara Prado in her investigations of agriculture and bees.
Puerto Rico! What a snappy looking bee with its orange, yellow, and glinting blue patterns interspersed with the standard blacks and whites of most bees. How lovely to that this is a bee found in agricultural areas...a sort of Bumble Bee replacement in a land where Bumble Bees don't exist. Collected by Sara Prado in her investigations of agriculture and bees.
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20decolorata%2C%20F%2C%20face%2C%20Puerto%20Rico%2C%20St.%20Isabel_2014-09-26-11.13.34%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=-Gbkj9ag)
Puerto Rico! What a snappy looking bee with its orange, yellow, and glinting blue patterns interspersed with the standard blacks and whites of most bees. How lovely to that this is a bee found in agricultural areas...a sort of Bumble Bee replacement in a land where Bumble Bees don't exist. Collected by Sara Prado in her investigations of agriculture and bees.
Puerto Rico! What a snappy looking bee with its orange, yellow, and glinting blue patterns interspersed with the standard blacks and whites of most bees. How lovely to that this is a bee found in agricultural areas...a sort of Bumble Bee replacement in a land where Bumble Bees don't exist. Collected by Sara Prado in her investigations of agriculture and bees.
Second in a Series. Centris...the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers.
Second in a Series. Centris...the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers.
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20decolorata%2C%20F%2C%20side%2C%20Puerto%20Rico%2C%20St.%20Isabel_2014-09-26-11.21.53%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=_gbEvg4D)
Puerto Rico! What a snappy looking bee with its orange, yellow, and glinting blue patterns interspersed with the standard blacks and whites of most bees. How lovely to that this is a bee found in agricultural areas...a sort of Bumble Bee replacement in a land where Bumble Bees don't exist. Collected by Sara Prado in her investigations of agriculture and bees.
Puerto Rico! What a snappy looking bee with its orange, yellow, and glinting blue patterns interspersed with the standard blacks and whites of most bees. How lovely to that this is a bee found in agricultural areas...a sort of Bumble Bee replacement in a land where Bumble Bees don't exist. Collected by Sara Prado in her investigations of agriculture and bees.
Centris...the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers.
Centris...the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers.
Centris...the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers.
Centris...the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers.
Centris...the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers.
Centris...the tropical western hemisphere's answer to the Bumblebee. Bumblebees are absent from the Caribbean but bees of the genus Centris are of the same size and shape and fill the same floral niche muscling their way into large tropical flowers.
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20errans%2C%20F%2C%20back1%2C%20San%20Salvador%20Island%2C%20Bahamas_2012-11-13-14.11.01%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=JhaC5YzV)
Bahamas, San Salvador Island, Collected by Dan Kjar
Bahamas, San Salvador Island, Collected by Dan Kjar
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20errans%2C%20F%2C%20back2%2C%20San%20Salvador%20Island%2C%20Bahamas_2012-11-13-14.18.02%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=NITmY5QA)
Bahamas, San Salvador Island, Collected by Dan Kjar
Bahamas, San Salvador Island, Collected by Dan Kjar
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20errans%2C%20F%2C%20face%2C%20San%20Salvador%20Island%2C%20Bahamas_2012-11-13-10.51.39%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=Z7AMHVYD)
Bahamas
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20errans%2C%20F%2C%20side%2C%20San%20Salvador%20Island%2C%20Bahamas_2012-11-13-10.58.33%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=juCghIwv)
Bahamas
Centris fasciata, male, Cuba, GTMO
Cuba, GTMO, Guantanamo Bay
Cuba, GTMO, Guantanamo Bay
A lovely Centris from Puerto Rico, collected by Sara Prado
A lovely Centris from Puerto Rico, collected by Sara Prado
A lovely Centris from Puerto Rico, collected by Sara Prado
A lovely Centris from Puerto Rico, collected by Sara Prado
A lovely Centris from Puerto Rico, collected by Sara Prado
A lovely Centris from Puerto Rico, collected by Sara Prado
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20haemorrhoidalis%2C%20M%2C%20Back%2C%20Puerto%20Rico%2C%20Yauco_2014-09-23-16.26.57%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=PF58VbIC)
Centris haemorrhoidalis - The red-butted bee of Puerto Rico. Another lovely bee from the tropics, sort of a fancy bumble bee in a way. Collected by queen bee of Puerto Rico, Sara Prado. Pictures by Brooke Alexander.
Centris haemorrhoidalis - The red-butted bee of Puerto Rico. Another lovely bee from the tropics, sort of a fancy bumble bee in a way. Collected by queen bee of Puerto Rico, Sara Prado. Pictures by Brooke Alexander.
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20haemorrhoidalis%2C%20M%2C%20Face%2C%20Puerto%20Rico%2C%20Yauco_2014-09-23-16.36.57%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=pD8K1HBg)
Centris haemorrhoidalis - The red-butted bee of Puerto Rico. Another lovely bee from the tropics, sort of a fancy bumble bee in a way. Collected by queen bee of Puerto Rico, Sara Prado. Pictures by Brooke Alexander.
Centris haemorrhoidalis - The red-butted bee of Puerto Rico. Another lovely bee from the tropics, sort of a fancy bumble bee in a way. Collected by queen bee of Puerto Rico, Sara Prado. Pictures by Brooke Alexander.
![close up of image](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/masonry/public/Centris%20haemorrhoidalis%2C%20M%2C%20Side%2C%20Puerto%20Rico%2C%20Yauco_2014-09-23-17.01.01%20ZS%20PMax.jpg?itok=ci3_eUTM)
Centris haemorrhoidalis - The red-butted bee of Puerto Rico. Another lovely bee from the tropics, sort of a fancy bumble bee in a way. Collected by queen bee of Puerto Rico, Sara Prado. Pictures by Brooke Alexander.
Centris haemorrhoidalis - The red-butted bee of Puerto Rico. Another lovely bee from the tropics, sort of a fancy bumble bee in a way. Collected by queen bee of Puerto Rico, Sara Prado. Pictures by Brooke Alexander.