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    Howard Heaton
    May 07, 2019

    Blue-winged insect

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    Looking for an ID on this Blue-winged beauty.



    Blue-winged black wasp/bee?

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    Bob Davies
    May 15, 2019

    Hi Howard. Here's a Carpenter Bee taken today. I took a few of the same bee and the images all had blue tinges to their wings, depending which direction the sun was.


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