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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 » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Striped Sweat Bees (Agapostemon) » Subgenus Agapostemon (Agapostemon Subgenus Agapostemon) » Honey-tailed Striped Sweat bee (Agapostemon melliventris)
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Metallic Green Bee - Agapostemon melliventris - female
Copyright © 2006 Phillip Ruttenbur

Metallic Green Bee - Agapostemon melliventris - Female
Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
September 19, 2004
Size: 7/16 inch
Agapostemon melliventris

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Green Bee - Agapostemon melliventris - female Metallic Green Bee - Agapostemon melliventris - female
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Contributed by Phillip Ruttenbur on 13 August, 2006 - 8:18pm
Last updated 12 October, 2006 - 10:25am

Do not frass!
Please do not frass these, at least for the moment. I believe they are going to be a species not represented in the guide until now.
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 August, 2006 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

 
No frassing of this, please.
I agree.
… Adalbert Goertz, 11 October, 2006 - 9:29pm login or register to post comments

 
I will do my best to get a sp
I will do my best to get a species on this gal. Ok got it.. This is A. melliventris Cresson
… Gordon C. Snelling, 15 August, 2006 - 8:01am login or register to post comments

 
good call
it is melliventris
… John S. Ascher, 5 October, 2006 - 1:19pm login or register to post comments

 
Frassing
If the two picts are linked, And, one is in focus and one is Not in focus.........Do both picts get frassed because one of them is not up to par?
… Phillip Ruttenbur, 14 August, 2006 - 7:31pm login or register to post comments

 
I think
if you use the Tag link under your image, and not the tag all link above your image, it should only take the one image.
… Machele White, 15 August, 2006 - 4:42am login or register to post comments

I saw one much like this this
I saw one much like this this weekend in Kent Co, MI. Head and thorax were metallic green, abdomen was yellow and black like a yellow jacket.
… bulrush, 14 August, 2006 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

This is a female Agapostemon,
This is a female Agapostemon, however my material is put a way and I can not recall the species at the moment.
… Gordon C. Snelling, 14 August, 2006 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

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