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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) » Panurgine Bees (Panurginae) » Calliopsine Bees (Calliopsini) » Calliopsis » Subgenus Nomadopsis sensu lato (Calliopsis Subgenus Nomadopsis sensu lato)
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Large aggregation of Bees, Andrena? - Calliopsis - male - female
Copyright © 2022 Daniel K. Horner

Large aggregation of Bees, Andrena? - Calliopsis - Male Female
McGee Creek Campground at about 7600 feet in the eastern Sierra, Mono County, California, USA
June 26, 2022
A large aggregation of hundreds of bees flying rapidly within inches of the ground over a warm, sunny, sandy, pebbly area in a campsite. They seemed to be starting to dig holes in the sand, though I saw none that were very deep. They were photographed only when the rarely landed. Some stopped flying to mate. These images are not the same individual.

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Contributed by Daniel K. Horner on 4 July, 2022 - 9:45am
Last updated 11 July, 2022 - 2:15pm

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