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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 » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Cellophane bees (Colletes) » Slevin's Cellophane Bee (Colletes slevini)
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Fuzzy yellow bee - Colletes slevini
Copyright © 2011 nativeplants

Fuzzy yellow bee - Colletes slevini
pozo/santa margarita/crston, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
August 28, 2011
Size: 6-7 mm
This fuzzy bee was working the Red Shanks, Adenostoma sparsifolium. There is another bee out on the buckwheat that looks similar, but it is smaller.

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Contributed by nativeplants on 29 August, 2011 - 9:59am
Last updated 8 June, 2012 - 10:00pm

Moved
Moved from Cellophane bees.
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Colletes
female

resembles C. slevini
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