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Smooth-backed Sweat Bee (Lasioglossum lionotum)Observer
gizzardscoutDescription
On Daucus
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Sunflower Seed Maggot (Neotephritis finalis)Observer
willkuhnDescription
Copulating pair on Jerusalem artichoke
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White-clothed Longhorn (Tetraloniella albata)Observer
jaygilliamDescription
About 20 of these feeding in a small area
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Desert Dandelion Fairy Bee (Perdita malacothricis)Observer
jenthebirdDescription
On Malacothrix glabrata. Nesting aggregation
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Eight-spotted Fairy Bee (Perdita octomaculata)Observer
lrussoutkDescription
The Perdita cleaning her mandibles is nightmare fuel but maybe it's good for the algorithm
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Short-eared Brushtail Possum (Trichosurus caninus)Observer
lrussoutkDescription
All these terrible old photos sorry!
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Lipotriches grisellaObserver
lrussoutkDescription
These are really old photos from my albums, but I never posted them before, sorry!
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Genus StenioliaObserver
alice_abelaDescription
Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, California
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King of Wasps (Megalara garuda)Observer
ensiirkallaDescription
Large mandibles the length of the forelegs, 43mm wingspan with iridescent purple sheen to the wings.
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Black-velvet Flat-Nomad (Paranomada velutina)Observer
cgwilsonDescription
Collected on Acaciaella. cf velutina
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Pale-fovea Miner (Andrena pallidifovea)Observer
cgwilsonDescription
Collected on Agoseris
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California Digger Bee (Anthophora californica)Observer
jenthebirdDescription
foraging on garden flowers
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Cowbirds (Genus Molothrus)Observer
elizabethalopezDescription
I know it’s a terrible picture, sorry! But I’m curious, hoping someone might be able to recognize it! There were TONS and they were flocking in these swirling formations for minutes on end before roosting. Black and pretty small, best guess is something like a cowbird
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Purple Passionflower (Passiflora incarnata)Observer
southern_appalachiaDescription
Disclaimer: Images may be slightly distorted due to unknown problems with my scanner.
These are wild-collected seeds I scanned while testing out my scanner earlier this year. I just found this in a folder of seed scans on my computer after forgetting about them for several months, so I decided I might as well upload them here. These seeds were collected from a couple different locations in Piedmont, Alabama in August 2022. I can't remember the exact locations or dates, however.
Scan was made January 10, 2023.
My scanner is not the greatest, but if you have any requests for a plant/plant part I should scan, feel free to let me know. I'd love to scan it and upload it.
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Slenderstalk Beeblossom (Oenothera filipes)Observer
loki_limestoneDescription
Cedar Glade Natural Area
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
jtkindtDescription
On white clover, very small. Seems similar to A labiata but with T1 all red. Last segment looks red in some photos and darker in others.
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Alumroot Cellophane Bee (Colletes aestivalis)Observer
joshklostermannDescription
Multiple individuals visiting Heuchera americana growing on NE facing cliff face next to road
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Metallic Sweat Bees (Subgenus Dialictus)Observer
joshklostermannDescription
@samwilhelm pondering Dialictus
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Caupolicana electaObserver
bmgriffinDescription
I saw so many at this site the population seems very healthy but i am worried about hardwood encroachment here.
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White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus)Observer
lrussoutkDescription
Weird photo of a deer. I will not apologize
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Grey Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis)Observer
lrussoutkDescription
Unsuccessful mating dance
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Slimspike Prairie Clover (Dalea phleoides)Observer
jakes26Description
Plants glandular-punctate, mostly glabrous. Growing on deep sands, leaflets 4-6mm long, mostly 11-25 per leaf. Adaxial leaflet surfaces eglandular. Abaxial leaflet surfaces glandular-punctate. Plants up to 74cm tall
Photos 13-14 are leaflet adaxial surfaces.
Photos 15-16 are leaflet abaxial surfaces
https://www.phytologia.org/uploads/2/3/4/2/23422706/954274-278turner_dalea.pdf
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Alkali Nomia (Nomia melanderi)Observer
janeabelDescription
Nomia melanderi on thistle
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Mesoxaea texanaObserver
sixlegsDescription
Male bee feeding on whitebrush (Aloysia gratissima) and shrubby blue salvia (Salvia ballotiflora) at a ranch in Puerto Rico, Texas, Hidalgo Co. Identification by Jack Neff.
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Mandibular Cellophane Bee (Colletes mandibularis)Observer
amoorehouseDescription
Found on spotted bee balm at Illiniwek Village Historic Site.
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Cordate-headed Resin-Leafcutter (Trachusa cordaticeps)Observer
conormcmahonDescription
Maybe? The closest match I've been able to find is:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13241048
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1351818/bgpage
About the size of a honeybee, as I recall.
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Long-horned Mining Bees (Genus Tetraloniella)Observer
missptDescription
https://youtube.com/shorts/_EDgMHC42HQ?feature=share
Bee in the video, 5 total seen, most were this red. All were seen on Salvia azurea, one was seen on a blue curls species, but not observed nectaring/pollinating, simply resting out of the wind.
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Alumroot Cellophane Bee (Colletes aestivalis)Observer
mmccarthy98Description
first record for NJ, I think. Males and females visiting Heuchera americana growing in rocky outcrops on steep slope facing the Delaware River.
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
lrussoutkDescription
maybe the ZIVE specialist
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Subgenus MelanosmiaObserver
lrussoutkDescription
Has anyone seen a mason bee nesting in a pine cone before??? I've never heard of it
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Mustard Miner Bee (Andrena arabis)Observer
mmccarthy98Description
missed getting photos from other angles but did examine individuals in the hand w/ lens
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Morefield's Leather Flower (Clematis morefieldii)Observer
jdmoreDescription
Morefield leatherflower, Clematis morefieldii, in flower and bud, Alabama, Madison County, Huntsville, Cumberland Plateau, Monte Sano Mountain, Aldridge Creek - Tennessee Valley watershed, elevation 226 m (740 ft).
Date is approximate, +/- 10 days.
From Kodachrome-64 color transparency film exposed with an Olympus OM-4T and Tamron 28-70mm zoom-macro lens. Scanned at 4000 dpi with a Nikon Coolscan 5000, and restored using Corel Paintshop Pro X4.
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Osmia inspergensObserver
gnatcatcherDescription
9.5mm. Taken at Vaccinium angustifolium.
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Mason Bees (Genus Osmia)Observer
loki_limestoneDescription
Hatched from shells gathered a week ago, survived by eating the fishscale lichen in the bag. Was starving so I gave him my winter bittercress to recharge on. Amazing, has anyone else heard of Mason bees eating dry lichen to survive?
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Mason Bees (Genus Osmia)Observer
loki_limestoneDescription
Found in a shell under a bush, buried in leaves, was very docile and beautiful. Stayed with me for like 45 mins, crawled out onto my hand to tell me when he had to go, flew similar to a beetle steady n straight.
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Andrena cerebrataObserver
jtkindtDescription
Male bunked down for the night in Philadelphus inodorata blossom. Four out of 10 of the other blossoms were occupied by Chelostoma males.
