hymenopterahumes's Identifications

This bee was feeding on the flowers of a type of lungwort plant growing in the Rosehill Garden on the east side of David A. Balfour Park on a Mother’s Day that was sunnier than forecast for the city of Toronto.

The bee has dark wings, some yellow in the vertex, and a distinct black spot on the top of its thorax, as well as the patch of yellow in the middle of the second abdominal segment.