Difficulty: its wings are a blur, and it’s facing almost dead-on to the camera. Zooming helps.
Honestly, it just would not stay still when I was trying to capture it (on camera)! This type is native to here, and they can live underground. It’s one of the reasons I’m always nervous digging around in a bed, I might be wrecking their home! Their nests are usually a loose soft light entanglement of grasses and geese or other feces (I guess as a binder? Maybe a scent mask? I’ll have to look further into that some day.) that the bees bring to arrange the nest themselves.
