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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) » Digger Bees (Anthophorini) » Digger Bees (Anthophora) » Subgenus Melea (Anthophora Subgenus Melea) » Anthophora bomboides » former subspecies bomboides (Anthophora bomboides former subspecies bomboides)
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fuzzy bumble bee with yellow clypeus - Anthophora bomboides
Copyright © 2019 Larry Reis

fuzzy bumble bee with yellow clypeus - Anthophora bomboides
Ludwig Prairie Preserve, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
June 27, 2018
Size: ~13 mm
I'm having trouble trying to determine what this bee is. It has a fuzzy black abdomen like bumble bees, but it also has a yellow clypeus and I don't know of any bumble bees that do. I may be wrong about that. I noticed that there is an eastern bumble-bee digger that does have a yellow clypeus, but Iowa does not appear to be in the range of bumble-bee diggers. It does have a band of yellow hairs on the front of its abdomen like the eastern bumble-bee digger, but I don't rule out long-horned or mining bees either. Found on a dry pristine prairie.

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Contributed by Larry Reis on 4 March, 2019 - 7:57am
Last updated 4 March, 2019 - 5:48pm

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 4 March, 2019 - 5:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Anthophora bomboides
Thanks so much for identifying this fuzzy bee for me, John! You made my day, since I thought I was crazy for even suggesting the eastern bumble-bee digger as a possibility. I will be on the lookout for this bee at Ludwig Prairie Preserve in 2019 for some better photos.
… Larry Reis, 4 March, 2019 - 6:24pm login or register to post comments

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