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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 » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Cuckoo Bees (Nomadinae) » Epeolini » Epeolus » Epeolus lectoides
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Epeolini on Asclepias tuberosa - Epeolus lectoides - female
Copyright © 2017 Martin R Lucas

Epeolini on Asclepias tuberosa - Epeolus lectoides - Female
Lena Park, Starke County, Indiana, USA
July 6, 2017
This seemed smaller than the Epeolini cuckoo bees I've previously photographed, but that's just an impression. On Asclepias tuberosa in a sand prairie and oldfield area. Lots of Monarda fistulosa was blooming nearby, but I only saw this bee on the butterfly milkweed.

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Epeolini on Asclepias tuberosa - Epeolus lectoides - female Epeolini on Asclepias tuberosa - Epeolus lectoides - female Epeolini on Asclepias tuberosa - Epeolus lectoides - female
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Contributed by Martin R Lucas on 6 July, 2017 - 9:00pm
Last updated 12 October, 2017 - 10:04am

Moved
Moved from Epeolus.
… John S. Ascher, 12 October, 2017 - 10:04am login or register to post comments

 
thanks!
Much appreciated Dr. Ascher. It was my impression these were, at times, fairly common at this site -- I found it interesting that Discover Life doesn't list A. tuberosa as an associated plant, but all the photos of it on BG show it visiting A. tuberosa.
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