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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) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Longhorn Bees (Eucerini) » Squash Bees (Peponapis) » Pruinose Squash Bee (Peponapis pruinosa)
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Squash Bees In Butternut Squash Flower - Peponapis pruinosa
Copyright © 2017 jlekowski

Squash Bees In Butternut Squash Flower - Peponapis pruinosa
Cresco Iowa, Iowa, USA
August 17, 2017
i saw 1 to 5 of them per flower of butternut squash during warm part of day.
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Contributed by jlekowski on 17 September, 2017 - 10:02pm
Last updated 18 September, 2017 - 7:18am

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… John S. Ascher, 18 September, 2017 - 7:18am login or register to post comments

squash bees
This should be Peponapis. The male (on top) has a small white patch on the clypeus, and the abdomen has distinc stripes of white hair. The other genus of squash bees has larger white or yellow clypeus and the abdomens are reddish.
Very nice photo!
… Thomas Berger, 17 September, 2017 - 10:29pm login or register to post comments

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