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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 » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Mining Bees (Andreninae) » Andrena » Subgenus Melandrena (Andrena Subgenus Melandrena)

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Copyright © 2019 Larry Reis

Andrena bee - Andrena -

Ludwig Prairie Preserve, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June 27, 2018
Size: 10 mm

This looks similar to the hawthorn Andrena I photographed on a different prairie a month earlier in the season, and I'm sorry if it is A. crataegi again, but this bee seems to have more brown hair on its body even though there is still very sparse light banding on its abdomen. I'm not sure how long the flight season lasts for individual Andrena species.

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Contributed by Larry Reis on 6 January, 2019 - 11:10am
Last updated 7 January, 2019 - 1:36am

Moved

Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.

cf. hilaris, sayi, etc.

… John S. Ascher, 7 January, 2019 - 1:36am

subgenus Melandrena

Thanks so much for taking the time to narrow down this Andrena bee, John! I could find a few good photos of A. hilaris (prayer-tail mining bee) from the USGS Bee Inventory and saw many similarities, though I also saw there are 25 other similar-looking species in the Melandrena subgenus.

… Larry Reis, 7 January, 2019 - 12:03pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Bob Biagi, 6 January, 2019 - 10:40pm

Female

Pollen collecting = ♀
Fully developed wings = Adult

… Bob Biagi, 6 January, 2019 - 10:39pm

female bee

Thanks for helping me ID this bee, Bob!

… Larry Reis, 6 January, 2019 - 10:48pm

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