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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 » Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees (Halictidae) » Sweat and Furrow Bees (Halictinae) » Halictini » Furrow Bees (Halictus) » Subgenus Seladonia (Halictus Subgenus Seladonia) » Halictus tripartitus
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Copyright © 2005 steve johnson

tiny "golden" bee - Halictus tripartitus - Female
berkeley, alameda County, California, USA
August 5, 2005
Size: tiny, 1 centimeter
This bee seems to bee foraging on the top of borage flowers and on dead cosmos flowers. I'm pretty sure that I have another good picture but I haven't processed it yet. Its front feet seem "spade" like(you can see this if you blowup the pic) and it has a white pollen sack.
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Contributed by steve johnson on 12 August, 2005 - 1:05am
Last updated 14 November, 2011 - 5:59pm

Moved
Moved from Halictus.
… Beatriz Moisset, 27 September, 2007 - 1:28pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Sweat Bees.
… john and jane balaban, 4 February, 2007 - 10:06am login or register to post comments

Halictus (Seladonia) tripartitus
there are dark metallic green Halictus - but the apical hair bands give them away
… Doug Yanega, 3 November, 2005 - 11:46am login or register to post comments

Halictidae.
This is a halictid bee, probably a female Lasioglossum. Nice image!
… Eric R. Eaton, 12 August, 2005 - 12:40pm login or register to post comments

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