Upon walking around the garden, I stumbled upon a mysterious green and yellow creature, which appeared to be a wasp. Much like one, it had black and yellow stripes across its abdomen and legs that reciprocated the yellow color on its spiracles. But atypically, it had a green thorax that stood out against the grey rock underneath. Upon applying a reverse image search to my picture, I found out that it was in fact a bee, of the family Agapostemon texanus. It’s a family of bees for which North America is a home. A home where these bees are born and buzz about beautifully in the background of…