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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 » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Mining Bees (Andreninae) » Andrena » Subgenus Andrena (Andrena Subgenus Andrena) » Clark's Miner Bee (Andrena clarkella)
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A different bee? - Andrena clarkella - female
Copyright © 2010 Joshua Stuart Rose

A different bee? - Andrena clarkella - Female
Mill River Recreation Area, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
April 13, 2010
This was in the same patch of forest floor as the other bees, but looked like it might be a different species. Or is it my imagination?

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A different bee? - Andrena clarkella - female A different bee? dorsal view - Andrena clarkella - female
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 15 June, 2010 - 10:07pm
Last updated 16 June, 2010 - 1:09am

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 16 June, 2010 - 1:09am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thank you for the identifications John! Guess it was just my imagination that there was more than one bee species involved. Any clue what was going on with the flies that were following these Andrena around, particularly the ones conspicuously carrying pollen?

I also photographed a wasp of the genus Nomada in the same vicinity. I see on that Guide page that such wasps frequently parasitize bees in the genus Andrena...
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 16 June, 2010 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

Andrena clarkella
female
… John S. Ascher, 16 June, 2010 - 1:08am login or register to post comments

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