Description
A female green sweat bee on a pink cosmos, her legs loaded with golden pollen — and unlike the striped male, she wears metallic green from head to tail. This is Agapostemon at her most spectacular: a living emerald against magenta petals, dusted in gold.
Look at the hind legs. That thick brush of hairs packed with yellow is her scopa — the pollen basket of a solitary bee, and every grain of it is going home to a nest she dug herself, to feed young she will never meet. The green isn’t pigment, either: it’s structural color, microscopic architecture splitting light, the same trick that lights up a hummingbird’s throat.
This is a high-resolution digital download of the photograph, made in Portland, Oregon — yours to print for your home, set as a wallpaper, or simply keep. A square frame, natural for framing.
What you’ll receive — two formats, one price:
• Square, 3200 × 3200 px — prints beautifully to about 10.7 inches square at 300 DPI. Ideal for framing.
• Widescreen 16:9, 4096 × 2304 px — prints to about 13.7 × 7.7 inches, and makes a superb desktop or panoramic wall piece.
Both files are delivered as instant downloads the moment your order is complete.
License: Personal use only. Print it for your own home, use it as a wallpaper or screen background, enjoy it yourself. Not licensed for commercial use, resale, redistribution, or AI training. © Jonathan Swanson / JonSwan Productions. All rights reserved.