Have you ever seen a metallic green bee?

Here in middle of the US we have bumble bees and honey bees that produce honey that can be gathered and eaten.

I do not know where the honey bee nest is, but certainly there is one someplace around here. I see honeybees in my yard a lot. I wonder who is the lucky person to have the honey in their yard? I may never know.

Wow, you get a lot of interesting wildlife in your area. I live in a city complete with paved roads that is very near a large metro area. Just last night I heard their was a deer running down a main road close to my street, that is 5 lanes and connects to a freeway. Someone hit it. I'm just flabbergasted there are deer so close to us here. I guess I should not be because we live near water. There is a very small island off the river and I hear there are deer there. We think the deer came from the land a factory sat on for years, and when they began tearing it down the deer had to move. I didn't know they were still doing any work on the land there, and it is not a very large piece of property at all, considering wildlife needs a large space to roam. It is next to a creek so perhaps the deer just follow the water. I hear all the time of accidents with deer further north of here, but never have I heard about anyone hitting a deer here in my immediate area! I hope you have managed to get a couple of photos of those rare birds. That is really cool to see something rare. I just love nature, even though I'm in a cement city.

We're by the sea here, hence the gulls. To be honest, they look like any sea gull to me (and they're noisy as heck, especially first thing in the morning or when the local fishermen arrive with their catch!). The deer was where I used to work for the RSPCA, which is a good few miles away. Their offices have a nice big garden area with a pond and there are plenty of fields/woods around, so it makes sense. The heron was cool, though - he stood in a tree, which looks really weird given how big herons are! My photographic skills will probably result in a blurred reflection of window-flash, to be honest. In our previous home, we had a small garden where loads of birds came to feed but they're so flighty it's hard to get photos - especially with a point-and-shoot affair.

I would love to see a heron in real life, in the wild. That sounds like a magnificent bird. I am also not fond of the gulls, as we have a lot of them here. I live near a waterway, so we do get our share of them. The good news is the population has declined by a lot, so they are not near as annoying as they used to be. One could not walk outside without encountering a gull. They leave such a mess too.

lol! indeed they are making the flowers multiply. They are so very pretty, and I am happy to see them in my garden. They are so unusual to me, but I guess a pretty common bug here.

Sometimes the city will plant a little bit of a garden in different areas of the city. Perhaps you can visit one of those greener areas and see what flies onto the flowers. Or take a little trip to the suburb and find a flower park and check out the bugs, maybe there is a green bee you can see in person. Bees are harmless. They will die if they sting, and cannot bite so they reserve their stinger until they absolutely must use it, most likely when the nest is attacked.

You may not think so, but you are very lucky to have bees around your house. Bees will not sting unless they are provoked and they cannot bite, unlike wasps and hornets that do bite. I do hope you never get stung or bit by anything.