teamfortifier's Identifications
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Melitta melittoidesObserver
mollymjacobsonDescription
Collected in a sweep of Lyonia ligustrina.
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Fringed Loosestrife Oil Bee (Macropis ciliata)Observer
mollymjacobsonDescription
Collected in a sweep of spreading dogbane.
Anything that looks like shagreening /tessellation on the cuticle is just residue from the washing process.
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Macropis Cuckoo Bee (Epeoloides pilosulus)Observer
mollymjacobsonDescription
Collected via pan trap in expected habitat, Macropis ciliata present as well. First photo was taken when specimen was fresh, the eyes faded in color afterwards. ID confirmed from specimen by Sam Droege.
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Dwarf-dandelion Mining Bee (Andrena krigiana)Observer
mollymjacobsonDescription
Ten specimens collected off of yellow hawkweed, Pilosella caespitosa. A couple hundred Krigia virginica in the vicinity but no bees seen on it. Live photos coming.
Smallish Andrena, with very short foveae, a very narrow 2nd submarginal cell, propodeal corbicula with long simple hairs only in the upper third, tibial scopa highly branched at apical ends of shafts.
Interestingly, there was a single specimen that was missing the 2nd submarginal cell entirely in both wings.
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Eastern Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa virginica)Observer
streettree63Description
There were two flying and it is they I got the sound recording of.
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Unequal Cellophane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)Observer
mollymjacobsonDescription
Small nesting aggregation, ~35 nests, in a sandy powerline ROW along a trail. Not far from the Colletes validus aggregations that emerge a couple of weeks later.
Additional site photos added for the GNBees Project. I forgot to take one pointing upwards but it was in a completely open area, no canopy cover.
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Unequal Cellophane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)Observer
bnmccullyDescription
there were a number of these on this warm spring day swarming in the cedar tree
Stats
- 77
