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Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees

Mining Bees · Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees · Plasterer Bees, Masked or Yellow-faced Bees · Sweat Bees · Leaf-cutter bees, Mason Bees, and allies

Family Andrenidae - Mining Bees
Andrena mentzeliae (Andrenidae) in Colorado Springs. - Andrena mentzeliae - female Anothe bee to ID - Andrena - female Bee ID Request [2008] - Andrena - male Megachilid? - Calliopsis puellae Bee - Calliopsis puellae Golden hairy bee - Andrena hirticincta - female Mining Bee - Andrena - male Perdita sp, female, yellow with black markings - Perdita - female

Family Apidae - Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees
Bumble Bee with mites - Bombus impatiens Bee - Svastra obliqua Which bee please. - Bombus rufocinctus - male Bee ID - Xylocopa tabaniformis - female Brownbelted Bumble Bee - Bombus griseocollis - female Bee on Aster - Melissodes druriella - female Bombus? - Bombus rufocinctus Bee 1 - Bombus

Family Colletidae - Plasterer Bees, Masked or Yellow-faced Bees
bee - Colletes - female Colletes thoracicus - female Wasp - Hylaeus - female Hylaeus modestus? - Hylaeus Bee - Colletes inaequalis - male small bee - Hylaeus - male Bee or Wasp - Hylaeus - male Wasp - Hylaeus - female

Family Halictidae - Sweat Bees
Lasioglossum ID? Suspect it's a metallic green bee (Agapostemon splendens) - please authenticate - Agapostemon sericeus - female Halictus? Enough here to go to species? - Halictus ligatus Bee - Lasioglossum bruneri - female Bee 2529 - Lasioglossum nigroviride - female Unidentified Bee - Augochlora pura Halictus - Halictus tripartitus Summer bee - Halictus ligatus - female

Family Megachilidae - Leaf-cutter bees, Mason Bees, and allies
small and bee-like - Megachile rotundata - female Dark bee/wasp? - Osmia Leafcutter Bee - Megachile centuncularis - female Digger Bee - Anthidium Large megachilid - Megachile pugnata - female Hoplitis (Monumetha) fulgida fulgida - Hoplitis fulgida - male Megachilidae #2 - Anthidium illustre Anthidium maculifrons - male


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