Calliopsis
Andrew Lin sends in this great photo of a bee from genus Calliposis, which is Latin for “drunken frat bee”. Here it can be seen doing a kegstand, facefirst into the oregano blossoms.
(Of course this is rubbish. Worker bees are all sterile females. But let’s be honest: “drunken sorority bee” is not nearly as funny. Maybe if a few more sororities lit couches on fire and threw them off the dorm roof.)
Seriously, people. This post needs to be lolbugged. Head on over to SayWhat or ROFLbot and get to work. Feel free to use the portrait image or the larger size.
Insect Picture of the Day » Calliopsis said,
July 7, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
[…] pretty eyes. Andrew Lin caught a much more respectable-looking Calliopsis bee this time. He sent in this picture noting that, thought it’s slightly soft-focused, the […]
Andrew said,
July 8, 2008 @ 11:49 am
Here is my rendition. Hopefully, you’re supposed to use HTML in the comment to create links.
Also, I used full English spellings of words because I’m too old to use whatever that hard-to-read alternate spelling thing is called.
Get off my lawn!
Insect Picture of the Day » Ants said,
July 27, 2008 @ 7:02 am
[…] ¹ Again, technically, sorority parties. We’ve been over this. […]