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Featured Insect
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A big gray bee bumped into her cheek, bounced off and
continued on its busy buzzing way. Startled, she noticed the
air was full of gray bees—a thick wave of them, like a flag
floating a few feet over the ground. One or two would drop
away, landing and walking in circles on the sand, then fly
up again into the flag made of bees. Her own head buzzing
with pain, she watched a bee land and then begin to dig,
throwing up sand in a fury of effort. A second bee dropped
down to challenge for the hole. Buzzing with outrage, both
bees wrestled in the dirt leaving a third bee to dive into
the
contested hole and dig like crazy. Suddenly, like a stripper
in a stag party cake, a fourth bee came bursting out of the
bottom of the hole in a sizzle of buzz. Quickly, the third
bee
mounted the fourth—then with a whirr of wings they took
to the air, leaving the first two bees with a useless hole.
— Walks Away Woman, Ki Longfellow, page 11
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NOTE: Following is a small sample of Sonoran Desert
arthropods. There are far too many to include more.
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