The metallic green sweat bee, Agapostemon subtilior, need not worry about being pinched on St. Patrick's Day. It wears iridescent green all year around. The pollinator I photographed several years ago was then known as Agapostemon texanus, or the Texas Striped Sweat Bee. As of last year, taxonomists have declared it the Agapostemon subtilior, the fine-striped sweat bee. (The name, subtilior refers to the sculpturing on the propodeum (the first abdominal segment fused with the thoras), and...
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