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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Lasioglossum
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Lasioglossum - female
Copyright © 2015 Tony Palmer

Lasioglossum - Female
Tucson, Reid Park Zoo, Pima County, Arizona, USA
April 23, 2015
Size: 4mm
THis bee sat on a leaf and kept sticking its glossa out and pulling it back in. This behavior went on for several minutes. Any ideas on what this bee was doing?

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Lasioglossum - female Lasioglossum
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Contributed by Tony Palmer on 26 April, 2015 - 1:06pm
Last updated 29 April, 2018 - 8:34am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 26 April, 2015 - 7:22pm login or register to post comments

Irritant?
Just a guess but probably something was irritating it - perhaps a grain of pollen or something.
… Victor Engel, 26 April, 2015 - 4:26pm login or register to post comments

 
This female is evaporating excess water
to concentrate nectar.
… Hartmut Wisch, 26 April, 2015 - 4:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Interesting
I had no idea they had such a behavior for that purpose.
… Victor Engel, 26 April, 2015 - 5:23pm login or register to post comments

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