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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 Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum Subgenus Lasioglossum) » Lasioglossum fuscipenne
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Small bee on Early figwort - Lasioglossum fuscipenne
Copyright © 2017 Martin R Lucas

Small bee on Early figwort - Lasioglossum fuscipenne
North Judson, Starke County, Indiana, USA
May 28, 2017
There were several of these small bees visiting Scrophularia lanceolata blossoms in my sand prairie garden. I've posted two images here -- I believe they are the same individual (partly because of the reddish legs), but there is a possibility I was confused. Probably lasioglossum, but I wondered if a narrower ID might be possible. They seemed especially attracted to these little figwort flowers.

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Small bee on Early figwort - Lasioglossum fuscipenne Small bee on Early figwort - Lasioglossum fuscipenne
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Contributed by Martin R Lucas on 31 May, 2017 - 8:25am
Last updated 31 May, 2017 - 9:40am

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