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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 » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Digger Bees (Anthophorini) » Digger Bees (Anthophora) » Subgenus Micranthophora (Anthophora Subgenus Micranthophora) » Anthophora curta
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Nix rightside-up. Perhaps A. squammulosa - Anthophora curta - female
Copyright © 2009 Ron Hemberger

Nix rightside-up. Perhaps A. squammulosa - Anthophora curta - Female
Nix Nature Center, Laguna Beach, Orange County, California, USA
June 27, 2009
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Contributed by Ron Hemberger on 29 June, 2009 - 9:57pm
Last updated 13 April, 2010 - 5:14pm

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Heliophila.
… John S. Ascher, 13 April, 2010 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Heliophila.
… John S. Ascher, 13 April, 2010 - 5:15pm login or register to post comments

Anthophora (Heliophila)
female

maybe A. squammulosa (=curta)
… John S. Ascher, 30 June, 2009 - 10:05am login or register to post comments

 
Now known as curta
-
… John S. Ascher, 7 June, 2013 - 9:07pm login or register to post comments

 
A very cute bee.
Thanks again, John.
… Ron Hemberger, 30 June, 2009 - 10:59am login or register to post comments

Is must be the blue, blue eyes...
...that make this bee seem so very cute.
… Harsi S. Parker, 30 June, 2009 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

 
Works for me.
Posture also helps. Hey, that works for me, too!
… Ron Hemberger, 30 June, 2009 - 11:01am login or register to post comments

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