BeeButts

Or maybe there are no pockets?

The world of bee look alike is big! This seems to be a pollinator, and has a decent amount of pollen on its hind legs. It does have an ant body type, but also appears to have wings.

Bee?

Hover fly?

Ant?

Hybrid?

Something else?

Yeah, I know they're called basket or corbicula, but pockets is more fun.

Yesterday's photo may or may not have been a hover fly. This is certainly a bee.

Tongue first, ready to go for it. Just like when Aragorn kisses Arwen at the end of the last OG LORT movie.

Dare I say up-bloom?

Possibly "Colletes daviesanus". Tiny and cute.

Most of the time when bees visit these flowers they completely disappear from view. I suspect this one was about to do just that.

As a fun note, if you pop the photo out and zoom in, you can see that its head looks a bit like a helmet with a narrow neck going into it.

This bee was big/beefy. If any of you know what species it might have been, chime in. If it helps, I'm in SE MI.