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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 sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Square-headed Wasps (Crabroninae) » Larrini » Gastrosericina » Tachysphex » terminatus group (Tachysphex terminatus group)
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Tiny Bee? - Tachysphex
Copyright © 2007 Naomi Smith

Tiny Bee? - Tachysphex
Brighton, Northumberland, Ontario, Canada
July 16, 2007
Size: 1/4 inch app.
This tiny bee expended a lot of energy digging this hole yesterday. Today I noticed that it is gone. I have not seen a little bee like this with the striped abdomen and bright red tip previously.
Naomi
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Contributed by Naomi Smith on 17 July, 2007 - 10:48pm
Last updated 5 September, 2008 - 4:53pm

Moved
Moved from Tachysphex.
… Matthias Buck, 5 September, 2008 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

Larrini
not a square-headed wasp as those are Crabronini

I don't think this is Tachytes
… John S. Ascher, 19 July, 2007 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

 
Ah...
BG has all Craboninae as the square-headed wasps. *shrug*
… Patrick Alexander, 19 July, 2007 - 5:13pm login or register to post comments

Square-headed wasp?
I saw a little wasp like this a year or so ago & Eric Eaton said it was a square-headed wasp; Crabonidae subfamily Craboninae tribe Larrini. I bet that's what you've got, too. Maybe Tachytes.

Patrick
… Patrick Alexander, 17 July, 2007 - 11:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Tachysphex.
This is most likely a species of Tachysphex. Small size, bicolored abdomen are suggestive, anyway. Moving to that genus for now, but will not be disappointed if I'm corrected later:-) This is an outstanding image, too, Naomi.
… Eric R. Eaton, 14 August, 2007 - 4:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Tiny Bee? - Tachysphex
Thanks Eric. Appreciate your help.
Naomi
… Naomi Smith, 21 August, 2007 - 3:10pm login or register to post comments

 
Tiny Bee?
Thanks Patrick, sure looks like the right place to start looking.
Naomi
… Naomi Smith, 18 July, 2007 - 3:16pm login or register to post comments

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