Beetlebee

Some tremendous prickly pear cacti are now in full bloom, the golden yellow petals beaming with light. Today, I looked to see what insects were attracted to the flowers. There weren't that many, but I did find a bumblebee. When I looked at it more closely, I saw that it was not any ordinary bumblebee. Its body was dark and rigid, like a beetle rather than a bee. Still, its behavior was more like that of a bumblebee, hovering alone from flower to flower. A beetlebee.