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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) » Nomad Bees (Nomadini) » Nomad Bees (Nomada) » superba species group (Nomada superba species group)
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Cuckoo bee? nectaring on cryptantha - Nomada
Copyright © 2007 Fred Bentler

Cuckoo bee? nectaring on cryptantha - Nomada
Lake Roosevelt, Ferry County, Washington, USA
May 26, 2007
This appears to me to be a cuckoo bee, nectaring on cryptantha...
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Contributed by Fred Bentler on 31 October, 2007 - 11:51pm
Last updated 3 May, 2008 - 1:30pm

Moved
Moved from Nomada.
… john and jane balaban, 3 May, 2008 - 1:30pm login or register to post comments

Thanks for the ID
I'll keep a lookout for Eucera next spring. They look like distinctive little animals.
… Fred Bentler, 2 November, 2007 - 12:33am login or register to post comments

probably in the edwardsii species group of Nomada
aka former subgenus Holonomada

these parasitize Eucera (Synhalonia) rather than Andrena
… John S. Ascher, 1 November, 2007 - 5:24pm login or register to post comments

Yes, Nomada sp.
Yes, this is a species in the genus Nomada.
… Eric R. Eaton, 1 November, 2007 - 1:16pm login or register to post comments

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