I love this season of the year because my balcony drones the entire day with nonstop collective bzzz :blobcatlove:

I thought it was just the Osmia cornutae nesting like always but I was outside looking at bees and there's some other species avidly disputing the tubes with them—abut the same size but all black, with subtle dark stripes that look maybe purplish in the sunlight, and a tuft of white on the head. Anyone knows who are they? #wildbiene

trypophobia trigger, bee identification request 

there, got a couple good pics thanks to how much they love me and let me play with them :pinkgirl_heart: which are these?? :blobcatsurprised: they never came to my balcony in this quantity before, it's a veritable sports competition between them and the O. cornutae right now

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