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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) » Augochlorine Green Sweat Bees and Allies (Augochlorini) » Augochlora » Pure Green Sweat bee (Augochlora pura)
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Sleeping bees - Augochlora pura - female
Copyright © 2010 john and jane balaban

Sleeping bees - Augochlora pura - Female
Harms Woods Forest Preserve, Glenview, Cook County, Illinois, USA
April 10, 2010
We lifted up a log in the oak woodland and found a whole colony of sleeping green bees. We took their picture and covered them back up so they could go back to sleep. Didn't know what would be useful so we posted all four of these. Feel free to frass as appropriate.

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Sleeping bees - Augochlora pura - female Sleeping bees - Augochlora pura - female Sleeping bees - Augochlora pura - female Sleeping bees - Augochlora pura - female
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 10 April, 2010 - 8:21pm
Last updated 13 November, 2011 - 6:44pm

Do they live in colonies
or just overwinter in groups in good places. Our wildflower season is just beginning so only a half dozen or so species available for nectaring.
… john and jane balaban, 14 April, 2010 - 6:26pm login or register to post comments

How nice!
You got a whole aggregation, that is nice. I found one sleeping bee last winter, the remnants of one a year ago and a mother raising her family in another occasion, but never a whole bunch of sleeping ones like this one. I wonder when they start getting busy.
… Beatriz Moisset, 14 April, 2010 - 11:41am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 10 April, 2010 - 8:51pm login or register to post comments

Augochlora pura
females
… John S. Ascher, 10 April, 2010 - 8:50pm login or register to post comments

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