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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 Ptilandrena in part, formerly the Nearctic Euandrena (Andrena Subgenus Ptilandrena in part, formerly the Nearctic Euandrena) » Andrena geranii
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Andrenidae, #4 on Wild Geranium - Andrena geranii
Copyright © 2020 MJ Hatfield

Andrenidae, #4 on Wild Geranium - Andrena geranii
100 Acre Wood, Winneshiek County, Iowa, USA
May 24, 2020
Finally. I not only collected bees on Wild geranium, Geranium maculatum, but also sent them off for positive identification:
A. distans and A. geranii. I've been curious since 2012.


ID by M. Arduser. Thank you.

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Andrenidae, #4 on Wild Geranium - Andrena geranii Andrenidae, #4 on Wild Geranium, dorsal - Andrena geranii Andrenidae, #4 on Wild Geranium, frontal - Andrena geranii Andrenidae, #4 on Wild Geranium, lateral - Andrena geranii
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Contributed by MJ Hatfield on 21 November, 2020 - 6:31pm

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