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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 » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Cellophane bees (Colletes)
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bee with black and white striped abdomen - Colletes
Copyright © 2019 Larry Reis

bee with black and white striped abdomen - Colletes
Ludwig Preserve, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
August 9, 2018
Size: ~10 mm
The general shape and apparent lack of facial fovea has me thinking this may be a cellophane bee rather than a mining bee, but I don't have much experience with cellophane bee ID. It was feeding on a goldenrod flower at a prairie preserve.

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Contributed by Larry Reis on 4 March, 2019 - 3:47pm
Last updated 4 March, 2019 - 5:49pm

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 4 March, 2019 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 4 March, 2019 - 5:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Colletes
Thanks for determining that this is a cellophane bee, John! I am slowly learning how to tell cellophane bees from mining bees, leafcutter bees and cuckoo-leaf-cutter bees.
… Larry Reis, 4 March, 2019 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

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