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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) » Mason Bees (Osmia) » Subgenus Melanosmia (Osmia Subgenus Melanosmia)
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Osmia bucephala? (Megachilidae) in Colorado Rockies - Osmia - female
Copyright © 2007 Adalbert Goertz

Osmia bucephala? (Megachilidae) in Colorado Rockies - Osmia - Female
Rampart Range of Front Range at 9350 ft (N 38.99915, W105.02252), El Paso County, Colorado, USA
July 4, 2007
Size: L = 12 mm
Found on Astragalus sp. - Milkvetch.

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Osmia bucephala? (Megachilidae) in Colorado Rockies - Osmia - female Osmia bucephala? (Megachilidae) in Colorado Rockies - Osmia - female Osmia bucephala? (Megachilidae) in Colorado Rockies - Osmia - female Osmila bucephala? (Megachilidae) in Colorado Rockies - Osmia - female
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Contributed by Adalbert Goertz on 7 July, 2007 - 5:46pm
Last updated 23 February, 2014 - 12:06am

Moved
Moved from Mason Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 23 February, 2014 - 12:06am login or register to post comments

Osmia nigriventris is another
Osmia nigriventris is another possibility.
… Molly Rightmyer, 11 March, 2011 - 3:29pm login or register to post comments

Osmia
not Ashmeadiella
… John S. Ascher, 8 July, 2007 - 10:48am login or register to post comments

 
Does the unusual venation
help the ID? Thanks, John.
… Adalbert Goertz, 8 July, 2007 - 5:52pm login or register to post comments

 
the venation seems normal
for a large osmiine
… John S. Ascher, 8 July, 2007 - 11:36pm login or register to post comments

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