#cellophanebee

We picture here Colletes willistoni, with mussy hair, something Colletes are prone to.  For me this is mostly irritating, in that they don't clean up well for their pictures, for the bees, well, its hard to say, they are an old lineage and apparently great looking hair under all conditions was not their evolutionary priority.  A tricky to id clade in Colletes, in the Midwest.  Found along the road, in one of my favorite parts of the world.  The Nebraska Sandhills.