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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Species Bombus nevadensis - Nevada Bumble Bee


On the Ecology and Systematics of Coloradan Bumblebees
By Byron, Peggy Ann
Thesis, University of Colorado, Boulder CO, 1980
193 pp. Contains descriptions of 20 species and subspecies of Bombus and 3 species of Psithyrus in Colorado, also a key to males and females to Colorado Bombus and Psithyrus. No images.

Bumble Bees of the Eastern United States
By Sheila Colla, Leif Richardson, Paul Williams
USDA, 2011

A scientific note on the first record of nesting sites of Peponapis crassidentata (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
By Oliverio Delgado-Carrillo, Martha Lopezaraika-Mikel, Lorena Ashworth, Ramiro Aquilar, Jorge A. Lobo, Mauricio Quesada
Apidologie 48:644-647., 2017
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Family-group names for bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)
By Engel M.S.
Am. Mus. novitates 3476, 33 pp., 2005

The Solitary Bees - Biology, Evolution, Conservation
By Bryan N. Danforth, Robert L. Minckley, John L. Neff
Princeton University Press, 2019
A book I've been waiting for has arrived at my door.
Princeton introduction

Collecting bees in southern Texas.
By Cockerell, W.P.
Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25(3): 187–193., 1917
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Cockerell, W.P. 1917. Collecting bees in southern Texas. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25(3): 187–193.

New records and range extensions of several species of native bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from Mississippi
By Katherine Parys, Terry Griswold, Harold W. Ikerd, Michael Christopher Orr
Biodiversity Data Journal. 2018 May 17;(6), 2018

The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees.
By Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia J. Messinger Carril
Princeton University Press, 2015
A wonderfully written, richly and attractively illustrated book, mostly with the authors' own excellent images!
This is a wonderful introduction to North America's over 4000 native bee species. The title page's photos communicate at once the great diversity of our bee fauna.
A MUST for everyone who wants to learn about the bees that have evolved with our flora, as well as a useful reference for professionals.