The Blue Rainbow Bee.  (OK...I made that name up...as can anyone since bee common names are up for grabs ....let's frisky up this taxonomy thing up a bit; shall we?).  Lasioglossum fattigi.  A rare bee, and this one was found by Olivia Latham in a shale barren in the mountains of Virginia.  Maybe this is where they all hang out. That also means that they could be in trouble because these barrens dwindle as I write this because we neglect to reset them with fire or herds of mastadons or least a bub with a chainsaw.  Trees are sometimes the enemy.   Photograph by Cole Cheng.