This dead bee was on a Trumpet Vine flower floating in my pool. It is black in color.
Photos 1, 3-4, and 6-13 were brightened in Photoshop.
Little help with the species?
Might be some kind of gall of a insect like wasp. Growing on a SalmonBerry or Rubus spectabilis
Several caterpillars like this and empty eggs (picture 2) on Santolina rosmarinifolia.
On Santolina rosmarinifolia