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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) » Longhorn Bees (Eucerini) » Melissodes » Subgenus Melissodes (Melissodes Subgenus Melissodes) » Two-spotted Longhorn Bee (Melissodes bimaculatus)
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Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - female
Copyright © 2009 Don Patterson

Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - Female
Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
August 2, 2009
On hyssop.
Sorry about the pics. This girl was so active I took over 20 images without getting more than two barely usable ones and wasn't able to get a good estimate of her size.

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Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - female Melissodes bimaculata? - Melissodes bimaculatus - female
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Contributed by Don Patterson on 20 September, 2009 - 5:55am
Last updated 15 October, 2009 - 10:37am

Moved
Moved from Frass.
… Don Patterson, 15 October, 2009 - 10:37am login or register to post comments

Frassed
Moved from Melissodes bimaculata.
… Don Patterson, 6 October, 2009 - 3:47pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Melissodes bimaculata.
… Don Patterson, 21 September, 2009 - 1:01am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Don Patterson, 21 September, 2009 - 12:47am login or register to post comments

yes
M. bimaculata
… John S. Ascher, 20 September, 2009 - 4:04pm login or register to post comments

 
thank you
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… Don Patterson, 21 September, 2009 - 12:45am login or register to post comments

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