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Bee with huge pollen-collection areas on tibia (not thighs) - Centris rhodopus - female
Copyright © 2007 margarethe brummermann

Bee with huge pollen-collection areas on tibia (not thighs) - Centris rhodopus - Female
Ironwood National Monument, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
August 14, 2007
Size: 1.5 cm
Two of these very hairy guys were drinking side by side from wet sand.
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Contributed by margarethe brummermann on 16 August, 2007 - 11:11am
Last updated 14 November, 2010 - 6:04pm

Moved
Moved from Centris rhodopus.
… Beatriz Moisset, 13 January, 2008 - 10:41am login or register to post comments

Centris rhodopus
note the red legs.

Not the same species as the other image. Please do not link multiple images unless certain they are identical.
… John S. Ascher, 16 August, 2007 - 3:03pm login or register to post comments

Centris sp.
This is a bee in the genus Centris. There are at least two species that look like this. We should visit Carl Olson and the U of A collection sometime this winter and sort out some of the critters you are photographing:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 16 August, 2007 - 1:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Great idea! I knew that t
Great idea!

I knew that these were two different individuals, that's why I said they were sitting next to each other. Shouldn't have linked them. Now I have to figure out how to unlink without causing more confusion.
… margarethe brummermann, 16 August, 2007 - 3:58pm login or register to post comments

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