
The Poinciana tree in the back is blooming which means the bees are buzzing. There is an innumerable number of blooms on the tree.

While there are quite a few large black bees gathering nectar from the blooms, they make very brief stops at any one bloom. Did you see the bee? Center of page then up.

In this photo you can see the iridescent wings of these bees. From what I can find, they are simply called large black bees.

This is the best image I was able to capture. I even focused the camera on a single flower clump for some five minutes, no bee never visited it even though bees were constantly flying from flower tor flower. I guess I could be called – Rob, the not nature photographer.