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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 » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Mason bees and relatives (Osmiini) » Heriades
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Which bee is this, please? - Heriades - male
Copyright © 2007 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

Which bee is this, please? - Heriades - Male
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
June 4, 2007
These days I am on the hunt for specialist bees. Is this Melitoma taurea? If not, what characteristics should I be looking for?

Observed on Convolvulus arvensis.

[Cropped per request. Thanks, Beatriz!]

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Which bee is this, please? - Heriades - male Which bee is this, please? - Heriades - male
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 5 June, 2007 - 8:47am
Last updated 7 September, 2016 - 10:31am

Moved
Moved from Heriades.
… John S. Ascher, 3 March, 2014 - 4:47am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Osmiini.
… John S. Ascher, 3 March, 2014 - 4:47am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Leaf-cutter bees, Mason Bees, and allies.
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 6 November, 2009 - 12:15pm login or register to post comments

Osmiini male
Heriades or Chelostoma
… John S. Ascher, 6 November, 2009 - 12:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Added
an additional image of this bee -- does it help with the ID?
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 6 November, 2009 - 12:14pm login or register to post comments

Cropping
This image as well as a few others of yours would benefit from cropping them a little tighter.
… Beatriz Moisset, 5 June, 2007 - 6:05pm login or register to post comments

No.
Appears to be a male megachilid, though I don't know which genus. Melitoma taurea is larger, more robust, and they fly very fast. Look for them on wild sweet potato flowers (Ipomoea), along with Peponapis and Cemolobus. I have heard they pollinate only in the early morning hours, but in Cincinnati I found all three genera easily in mid- to late-morning. Cemolobus is easily confused with Peponapis, by the way.
… Eric R. Eaton, 5 June, 2007 - 2:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I will keep looking!
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 5 June, 2007 - 3:04pm login or register to post comments

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