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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) » Aberrant Cellophane Bee (Colletes aberrans)
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Wasp - Colletes aberrans
Copyright © 2005 Bill Johnson

Wasp - Colletes aberrans
Kellogg, Wabasha County, Minnesota, USA
July 27, 2001
A great colored wasp. I've seen these referred to as Sand Wasps.
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Contributed by Bill Johnson on 27 January, 2005 - 5:08pm
Last updated 10 December, 2009 - 12:59pm

Moved
Moved from aberrans or wilmattae.
… John S. Ascher, 10 December, 2009 - 12:59pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Cellophane bees.
… v belov, 25 September, 2009 - 10:53am login or register to post comments

Colletes aberrans
female

Note scutum with short, subappressed, thickened, and densely plumose (scale-like) hairs.

Note also white hairs covering much of metasoma excepting the black bands.

in N of range (thoracic) pile of this species becomes "almost ochraceous" see Stephen, 1954: 338.

Visits Petalostemon
… John S. Ascher, 23 September, 2006 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

Colletes
as in the earlier photo
… Doug Yanega, 3 November, 2005 - 11:36am login or register to post comments

Bee
This looks like a solitary bee of some kind. I'd need to at least see several more angles, if not a specimen, to even get it to family.
… Eric R. Eaton, 27 January, 2005 - 6:16pm login or register to post comments

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