Bees Under The Macro Lens

The female leaf-cutter bee with pollen she has collected.

These macro images by Alejandro Santillana are being showcased in the Insects Unlocked project at the University of Texas at Austin.

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A female sweat bee.

A large female carpenter bee.

A male parallel leaf-cutter bee.

The honey-bellied sweat bee.

The male cuckoo-leaf-cutter bee.

The female long-horned bee.

The male two-spotted long-horned bee.

The male hostile leaf-cutter bee.

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