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Dark bee - Melissodes desponsus
Copyright © 2007 seorrell@gmail.com

Dark bee - Melissodes desponsus
Geneva, Ontario County, New York, USA
August 4, 2007
Size: a cm?
Behavior on thistle is kind of twitchy and wiggly, and I have not seen these except on thistle, so far--animal is considerably smaller than a common eastern bumble bee
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Contributed by seorrell@gmail.com on 14 August, 2007 - 1:59pm
Last updated 15 August, 2007 - 9:19am

Melissodes (Heliomelissodes) desponsa
a thistle specialist

watch for its cleptoparasite: Triepeolus donatus
… John S. Ascher, 14 August, 2007 - 4:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks
Thank you!

Er, I wonder if I have already seen that Triepiolus donatus: I found a picture at a usgs site: http://pick5.pick.uga.edu/mp/20p?see=I_SD3680 (there aren't many Triepeolous pix on bugguide.net, yet).

and my picture is here:http://bugguide.net/node/view/134502.

It's possible, no?
… seorrell@gmail.com, 15 August, 2007 - 9:20am login or register to post comments

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