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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) » Digger Bees (Anthophorini) » Digger Bees (Anthophora) » Subgenus Melea (Anthophora Subgenus Melea) » Anthophora abrupta
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Anthophora abrupta - Miner Bee ?? #4 - Anthophora abrupta
Copyright © 2009 John Hartgerink

Anthophora abrupta - Miner Bee ?? #4 - Anthophora abrupta
Baton Rouge - BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
May 18, 2009
Size: about 2 cm long
This is a follow-up to to a discussion of 5/14/09.
Attempting to provide more detail pictures of a colony of insects to confirm ID.

Finally got a few of these girls to sit still. 65 degF this morning.
Wow what a proboscis/tongue.

John

Anthophora abrupta makes burrows like this, and this bee looks like a plausible match with the images in the guide. I hope you can get some clearer images of the bees so Dr. Ascher can confirm. I'm not sure how many other species might make similar structures. Great find!
… Charley Eiseman, 14 May, 2009 - 8:15pm
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Contributed by John Hartgerink on 18 May, 2009 - 1:12pm
Last updated 14 April, 2012 - 9:21am

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