This is a post by guest blogger Ellen Bulger.
In this installment, Ellen reveals the answer to last week’s Pareidolia Play Along.
It’s a bee, a blue bee! The genus is Osmia, the species probably pumila. The disk-like thing in the center of the shot is called a tegula and is positioned just above where the wings attach to body. If I’d been the one to name that particular bit of bee anatomy, I would have called them epaulets.
When I took the shot, I thought my oh my, this looks like a painting.