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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) » Carpenter and Small carpenter Bees (Xylocopinae) » Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina) » Subgenus Ceratinula (Ceratina Subgenus Ceratinula) » Ceratina arizonensis
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tiny bee on fennel flowers - Ceratina arizonensis
Copyright © 2019 Kimberly Steinmann

tiny bee on fennel flowers - Ceratina arizonensis
Sacramento, Sacramento County, California, USA
August 14, 2019
Size: gnat-sized
many tiny blue-black metallic bees (i think bees, not wasps?) flying about fennel flowers

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tiny bee on fennel flowers - Ceratina arizonensis tiny bee on fennel flowers - Ceratina arizonensis
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Contributed by Kimberly Steinmann on 14 August, 2019 - 8:21pm
Last updated 15 August, 2019 - 11:38am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 15 August, 2019 - 11:38am login or register to post comments

two separate bees
Your second photo is a sweat bee but the first and third are Ceratina small carpenter bees.
Something perhaps like:

But wait for an expert opinion.
Please unlink the second photo and upload it on its own, thanks!
… Molly Jacobson, 14 August, 2019 - 8:44pm login or register to post comments

92% sure its a bee
It looks like a type of sweat bee, in the genus dufourea?
… Lat, 14 August, 2019 - 8:43pm login or register to post comments

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