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More Perdita? - Perdita
Copyright © 2011 Aaron Schusteff

More Perdita? - Perdita
Upper Box Canyon, northeast of Mecca, Riverside County, California, USA
April 30, 2011
On the (ever bee-popular) Mentzelia involucrata. Looks as though this one may have picked up a milkweed pollinarium on its right hind tarsus.

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Contributed by Aaron Schusteff on 14 May, 2011 - 5:44am
Last updated 23 February, 2024 - 9:32pm

Moved
Moved from Perdita.
… John S. Ascher, 15 May, 2011 - 3:12am

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 15 May, 2011 - 3:12am

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