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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 Osmia (Osmia Subgenus Osmia) » Hornfaced Bee (Osmia cornifrons)
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Osmia - Osmia cornifrons
Copyright © 2017 Robert Wrench

Osmia - Osmia cornifrons
Seattle, King County, Washington, USA
April 11, 2017
This was the only angle I got, but this looks like an Andrena species....a little smaller than Apis mellifera on Hairy Manzanita. Actually, Osmia cornifrons.
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Contributed by Robert Wrench on 11 April, 2017 - 8:49pm
Last updated 11 April, 2017 - 11:34pm

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Osmia cornifrons. First identified BG record for WA
… John S. Ascher, 11 April, 2017 - 9:02pm login or register to post comments

 
This is the Japanese hornface
This is the Japanese hornfaced bee? BG record refers to what...I had heard of occurrences in the east
… Robert Wrench, 11 April, 2017 - 11:33pm login or register to post comments

 
BG refers to Bugguide!
I'm now aware of previous reports from Washington State but these may exist
… John S. Ascher, 21 April, 2018 - 12:11am login or register to post comments

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