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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 sans Anthophila – Apoid Wasps » Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies (Crabronidae) » Pemphredoninae » Pemphredonini » Pemphredonina » Pemphredon
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Bee - Pemphredon
Copyright © 2007 Tom Bentley

Bee - Pemphredon
Reed-Turner Woodland Nature Preserve, Lake County, Illinois, USA
September 27, 2007
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Contributed by Tom Bentley on 3 October, 2007 - 6:19pm
Last updated 20 October, 2007 - 4:15pm

Moved
Moved from Aphid Wasps.
… Matthias Buck, 20 October, 2007 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

Pemphredon
The very chunky head (similar to many Crabronini such as Ectemnius!) is one of the distinctive field characters for the genus.
… Matthias Buck, 20 October, 2007 - 4:15pm login or register to post comments

Not bee:-)
Great image of an aphid wasp, though! Pemphredoninae in Crabronidae.
… Eric R. Eaton, 3 October, 2007 - 6:43pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks Eric.
thanks Eric.
… Tom Bentley, 3 October, 2007 - 7:06pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank YOU!
We don't have many images of pemphrdonids, so keep up the great work on the overlooked insects:-)
… Eric R. Eaton, 4 October, 2007 - 3:52pm login or register to post comments

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