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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) » Longhorn Bees (Eucerini) » Melissodes » Subgenus Eumelissodes (Melissodes Subgenus Eumelissodes) » Melissodes agilis
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Bee taking nectar - Melissodes agilis - male
Copyright © 2004 Scott Camazine

Bee taking nectar - Melissodes agilis - Male
near the coast, Delaware, USA
Is this in the genus Melissodes?
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Contributed by Scott Camazine on 2 September, 2004 - 10:26am
Last updated 4 November, 2007 - 4:45pm

Moved
Moved from Melissodes.
… Ted Kropiewnicki, 4 November, 2007 - 4:45pm login or register to post comments

Melissodes
can't tell species from a photo
… Doug Yanega, 3 November, 2005 - 12:25pm login or register to post comments

Honey Bee
This is not a male. This is a female, you would call her a scout or forager. Males are called Drones, and about the only thing they do is mate with a Queen or some times they will groom the Queen also.
… Bee Guy, 8 February, 2005 - 11:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Male Melissodes agilis
I like male Melissodes better: Long antennae. Looks like Melissodes agilis.
… Adalbert Goertz, 28 June, 2005 - 12:24pm login or register to post comments

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