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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 » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Mason bees and relatives (Osmiini) » Mason Bees (Osmia) » Subgenus Melanosmia (Osmia Subgenus Melanosmia) » Osmia cyanella
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Osmia - Osmia cyanella - female
Copyright © 2007 Hartmut Wisch

Osmia - Osmia cyanella - Female
Off Angeles Crest Highway, ~6800 ft. (near Vista Picnic Area), San Gabriel Mountains., Los Angeles County, California, USA
June 19, 2007
Size: ~9 mm
Taking nectar in Hulsea heterochroma . A jewel of a bee, and my reward for remembering to check up on the Hulsea .

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 20 June, 2007 - 12:47pm
Last updated 17 May, 2010 - 12:03pm

Moved
Moved from Mason Bees.
… Hartmut Wisch, 17 May, 2010 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

Osmia
female
… John S. Ascher, 20 June, 2007 - 12:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, John -
I also observed this, as well as a darker, more square-headed one, in Yerba Santa flowers nearby.
… Hartmut Wisch, 20 June, 2007 - 1:16pm login or register to post comments

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