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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) » Longhorn Bees (Eucerini) » Melissodes » Subgenus Melissodes (Melissodes Subgenus Melissodes) » Two-spotted Longhorn Bee (Melissodes bimaculatus)
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Small Bee - Melissodes bimaculatus - male
Copyright © 2020 Egarrity

Small Bee - Melissodes bimaculatus - Male
Alexandria , Virginia, USA
July 15, 2020
I was watering a Hibiscus moscheutos plant. Two bees flew up and landed on a late-fall-flowering (October) white Aster. One bee flew more than the other and kept approaching the other. It always landed nearby the other one. I suspect the one that remained landed was a female and the other a male. I think both got doused with water. There are likely some ground nests where I watered. I saw three of these bees flying in the same area today (07/16/2020). I took the submitted pictures yesterday.

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Contributed by Egarrity on 16 July, 2020 - 4:55pm
Last updated 16 July, 2020 - 9:03pm

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… Bob Biagi, 16 July, 2020 - 9:03pm login or register to post comments

Melissodes bimaculatus
Melissodes bimaculatus catching an afternoon nap. Just a few of some similar photos ... based on the comments for some of the photos, the males are the ones that rest like this.
… Ilona L., 16 July, 2020 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
I am happy to see more and more different kinds of small bees around as I plant more and more different kinds of native flowering plants.
… Egarrity, 16 July, 2020 - 11:36pm login or register to post comments

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