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Northern Amber Bumble Bee (Bombus borealis)Observer
camealaDescription
Could be B. fervidus. Only got this one photo.
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
keimwjDescription
18 Apr 2019.
Bull's Island State Park, Hunterdon Co, NJ.
Found emerging from a hole in a lawn.
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
mfrieseDescription
Found on Ageratina altissima
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Subgenus AndrenaObserver
colleen99Description
on mulch, back garden - just one quick photo before it flew off
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
colleen99Description
ID assistance appreciated!
back yard on fleabane
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
colleen99Description
ID assistance appreciated!
back yard on fleabane
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
colleen99Description
on fleabane, back garden
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Pickerelweed Longhorn Bee (Melissodes apicatus)Observer
colleen99Description
on liatris, back garden - repeatedly sticking its "tongue" in and out as if tasting one of the not-yet-opened buds
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
joebartokDescription
At Lobularia sp.
Possibly parasitized? – https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/189236184
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Texas Leafcutter Bee (Megachile texana)Observer
jfmantisDescription
Repeatedly carrying leaf slices into this hole in the ground. Spent maybe 30 seconds in the hole and 5 minutes away from it each time.
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Yellow-margined Nomad Bee (Nomada vegana)Observer
jfmantisDescription
Flying quickly & close to the ground.
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Metallic Sweat Bees (Subgenus Dialictus)Observer
alloyantDescription
Nesting site for very small bees. Fly in the last picture was kinda stalking the bee, possible parasitoid? Separate obs here: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/116325426
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Sculptured Resin Bee (Megachile sculpturalis)Observer
luna2020Description
At 400W MH lamp.
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Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii)Observer
eshansen2Description
Partially leucistic
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Nason's Mining Bee (Andrena nasonii)Observer
kjhungDescription
Andrena nasonii, female, foraging on Stylophorum diphyllum. Identification was made by collecting the specimen. Note tubercle on underside of mesepisternum in the microscope shot.
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Singular Miner Bee (Andrena miranda)Observer
rsealyDescription
Bee was approached and touched by a crab spider (Xysticus) but the spider retreated. The bee seemed to ignore the potential threat. On Dasiphora fruticosa.
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Micromus posticusObserver
alinamartinDescription
only bug on pelagic I confirmed didn't hitch a ride out to see. Many of these were flying off the water throughout the day and I managed to reach out and catch one.
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American Cellophane Bee (Colletes americanus)Observer
rileywalshDescription
Keyed with specimen.
Only saw them using Symphyotrichum
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Canadian Mining Bee (Andrena canadensis)Observer
rileywalshDescription
Locally abundant. Glad to see this species doing well here
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Black-tailed Long-horned Bee (Eucera atriventris)Observer
riverannaDescription
Photo taken 8/26
Collected 5/9
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
mikekiernanDescription
On Aegopodium podagraria
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Atlantic Tripletail (Lobotes surinamensis)Observer
liliumtbnDescription
underneath the dead passerine (probably Yellow-bellied Flycatcher)
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Metallic Sweat Bees (Subgenus Dialictus)Observer
gcbbDescription
I’m confused by what I’m seeing. It looks like two different kind of bees? Mating? Attacking? The lower bee looks like a masked bee.
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Sharptail Bees (Genus Coelioxys)Observer
ibarkerDescription
Female on a flower in a perennial garden
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Andrena phaceliaeObserver
pete_woodsDescription
This observation is for the individual in the first photo. All these photos are of Andrena in the same patch of Phacelia dubia, but the photos may include multiple individuals. A number of individuals were collected.
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Eight-toothed Cuckoo Leaf-cutter Bee (Coelioxys octodentatus)Observer
rileywalshDescription
Entered the nests of two separate Megachile texana
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
simmar01Description
Sur / On Eupatorium perfoliatum
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Agile Longhorn Bee (Melissodes agilis)Observer
naturephotosuzeDescription
LA RIver Whitsett
Seemed to be quite a few of these
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Mountain Mason Bee (Osmia inermis)Observer
gnatcatcherDescription
9.5 mm. ex Kalmia angustifolia. Collected by Nick Dorian @beesearcher and Max McCarthy @mmccarthy98 .
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Osmia laticepsObserver
gnatcatcherDescription
8 mm. ex Kalmia angustifolia. Collected by Nick Dorian @beesearcher and Max McCarthy @mmccarthy98 .
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Two-spotted Longhorn Bee (Melissodes bimaculatus)Observer
gja887Description
Many more males out today. This is one of my favorite bee behaviors I get to see. They’re using the leaves of New England aster.
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Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens)Observer
jeffsokalDescription
These girls have been nesting in my side lawn for 19 years I know of. Population is increasing.
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Subgenus MacropisObserver
mfahertyDescription
M. ciliata has been collected on the base (Veit).
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Dwarf-dandelion Mining Bee (Andrena krigiana)Observer
mollymjacobsonDescription
See other observation for more notes:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/168601510
Many individuals on yellow hawkweed. This individual was collected and ID determined from specimen.
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Hawthorn Miner Bee (Andrena crataegi)Observer
mpelikanDescription
At least some of the nests in this aggregation were being entered by more than one female. Here are two females that emerged one right after the other from the same burrow.
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Commodius Miner Bee (Andrena commoda)Observer
rileywalshDescription
1099
Common. Many sharing Rubus flowers with nearby dunningi and O. conjuncta
-Det. with specimen
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Orange-tailed Nomad (Nomada ovata)Observer
royaltylerDescription
in yellow pan traps near wild plums in bloom
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Metallic Sweat Bees (Subgenus Dialictus)Observer
beeboyDescription
Parasitic species, likely associated with L. imatium which was abundant at this site last week
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