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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 » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Lasioglossum » Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees (Lasioglossum Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees)
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Bee on achillea - Lasioglossum - female
Copyright © 2007 seorrell@gmail.com

Bee on achillea - Lasioglossum - Female
Geneva, Ontario County, New York, USA
July 9, 2007
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Contributed by seorrell@gmail.com on 1 August, 2007 - 1:46pm
Last updated 8 December, 2009 - 8:53pm

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Moved from Lasioglossum.
… John S. Ascher, 8 December, 2009 - 8:53pm login or register to post comments

Female sweat bee.
This is a really nice image of a female sweat bee in the genus Lasioglossum (family Halictidae).
… Eric R. Eaton, 1 August, 2007 - 3:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Sooooo, the bubble-blowing thing: in honey bees, that's apparently about concentrating the sugars in the nectar as part of the honey-making process (I heard that in a David Attenborough series about invertebrates). . . do sweat bees also make honey, then? Or do they just need richer nectar for some reason? I've seen flies doing the same thing.
… seorrell@gmail.com, 1 August, 2007 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

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