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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 » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Panurgine Bees (Panurginae) » Calliopsine Bees (Calliopsini) » Calliopsis » Subgenus Calliopsis (Calliopsis Subgenus Calliopsis) » Calliopsis andreniformis
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Wasp? Bee? - Calliopsis andreniformis - female
Copyright © 2010 Jomegat

Wasp? Bee? - Calliopsis andreniformis - Female
Merrimack County, New Hampshire, USA
June 14, 2010
Size: ~20mm
I don't know if this is a bee or a wasp. It's working on a cinquefoil blossom (Potentilla spp.)
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Contributed by Jomegat on 15 June, 2010 - 8:29am
Last updated 18 June, 2010 - 9:43am

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cropped so non-editors can see the insect.
… John R. Maxwell, 18 June, 2010 - 9:45am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 16 June, 2010 - 1:07am login or register to post comments

Calliopsis andreniformis
note white facial markings
… John S. Ascher, 16 June, 2010 - 1:06am login or register to post comments

Bee.
Probably in the Halictidae family.
… Eric R. Eaton, 15 June, 2010 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

 
Andrenidae
note facial maculae
… John S. Ascher, 16 June, 2010 - 1:06am login or register to post comments

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