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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 » Striped Sweat Bees (Agapostemon) » Subgenus Agapostemon (Agapostemon Subgenus Agapostemon) » Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens)
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Bee - Agapostemon virescens - female
Copyright © 2009 Phil Huntley-Franck

Bee - Agapostemon virescens - Female
Elkton, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
August 22, 2009
Size: approx 13mm+
Magnificent, impressive bee. Compared to the Agapostemon I've seen in the yard, this one is huge, easily the size of a honey bee. The green thorax and head are also the richest green of any bee I've come across, so far. I'm guessing this is a female, because of the hairs on the legs and the hairy pale bands about what appears a black abdomen.

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Bee - Agapostemon virescens - female Bee - Agapostemon virescens
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Contributed by Phil Huntley-Franck on 26 December, 2009 - 10:18pm
Last updated 27 December, 2009 - 5:41pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 27 December, 2009 - 9:38am login or register to post comments

yes, a female
probably A. virescens
… John S. Ascher, 27 December, 2009 - 9:37am login or register to post comments

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