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The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees.
By Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia J. Messinger Carril
Princeton University Press, 2015
ISBN: 0691160775
Cite: 1202433 with citation markup [cite:1202433]
A wonderfully written, richly and attractively illustrated book, mostly with the authors' own excellent images!
This is a wonderful introduction to North America's over 4000 native bee species. The title page's photos communicate at once the great diversity of our bee fauna.
A MUST for everyone who wants to learn about the bees that have evolved with our flora, as well as a useful reference for professionals.

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This book has great ID featur
This book has great ID features, including wing venation patterns.

 
"The Bees in your Backyard" Lasioglossum?
Does anyone know if this book is good for keying out lasioglossum to sub-genus? I'm trying to find some guides for the genus.

 
Only genera -
though there is mention of some subgenera of Lassioglosum, but no key. You find a key to the subgenera of Lasioglossum of the Western Hemisphere in Michener, 2nd ed. 2007 (1), p. 373.

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