Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps


Large Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa virginica - female Cuckoo bee - Triepeolus lunatus Another bee - Halictus ligatus - female Green  ? whatever - Agapostemon - male Give A Wave - Bombus ternarius - male Leafcutter? - Megachile perihirta - male Apis mellifera? - Apis mellifera - female Andrena - Andrena wilkella - male Plasterer Bee - Colletes simulans - female Green-eyed (Melittid) bee - Hesperapis

Wasp ID Request - Cerceris sphecid wasp? - Sphex lucae - male Bembix americana? - Bembix Wasp 420A 7192 & 7195 & 7202 - Cerceris bug - Prionyx - female 260523 Trypoxylon - Trypoxylon tridentatum Yellow and black hymenopteran on Euphorbia esula - Philanthus - female Parasitic bee? - Diploplectron - male

Anteon rugosiceps - female Pristocera armifera? Cuckoo Wasp? Cuckoo Wasp - Chrysidinae - Chrysura bethylid - Goniozus Ant mimic with mantis-like forelegs Hymenptera. Chrysididae. Chrysis? - Chrysis cuckoo wasp - Caenochrysis

Formica incerta ants and spider - Formica montana Black and Orange Ant - Camponotus semitestaceus Ant  - Aphaenogaster picea Dolichoderus plagiatus - female Ant 1 red carpenter ants - Camponotus chromaiodes - female tiny FL alate ant - Solenopsis

Pepsis Buckwheat Singles Bar - High Flyer - Pepsis mexicana - female Blue wasp: Chlorion aerarium perhaps? - Psorthaspis planata Tarantula Hawk - Pepsis thisbe - male Velvet Ant - Timulla vagans Mutillid - Timulla vagans - female Velvet Ant  - Dasymutilla - female Dasymutilla? - Dasymutilla tiny velvet ant - Myrmosula - female