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Subgenus Eumelissodes (Melissodes Subgenus Eumelissodes)
Photo#1393174
Copyright © 2017
Cindy Pegg
Possibly Melissodes communis? -
Melissodes
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
June 24, 2017
This bee and a few of his (?) fellows were concentrating on the coreopsis, but were also occasionally to be found on the echinacea.
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Contributed by
Cindy Pegg
on 27 June, 2017 - 10:37pm
Last updated 30 June, 2017 - 8:19pm
Moved
Moved from
Long-horned Bees
.
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John S. Ascher
, 30 June, 2017 - 8:19pm
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Another one
This is probably a different individual than the three others I uploaded (and taken later in the day), but it looked like the same sort of creature and this image shows a view of the wing veining.
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Cindy Pegg
, 27 June, 2017 - 10:45pm
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