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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) » Mining Bees (Andreninae) » Andrena » Subgenus Melandrena (Andrena Subgenus Melandrena) » Andrena jessicae
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red bee - Andrena jessicae - female
Copyright © 2006 Patrick Alexander

red bee - Andrena jessicae - Female
Organ Mountains; Aguirre Springs, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA
March 26, 2006
A fuzzy reddish bee, another of my insects from Rhus trilobata.

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red bee - Andrena jessicae - female red bee - Andrena jessicae - female red bee - Andrena jessicae - female
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Contributed by Patrick Alexander on 28 March, 2006 - 6:47pm
Last updated 15 June, 2008 - 10:17am

Moved
Moved from Andrena.
… Beatriz Moisset, 27 September, 2007 - 12:10pm login or register to post comments

Andrena (Tylandrena) jessicae Cockerell
one of many beautiful Andrena
… John S. Ascher, 23 June, 2007 - 9:24pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bees.
… Beatriz Moisset, 5 October, 2006 - 5:53pm login or register to post comments

Andrena
female; good call Stacey

looks nothing like Nomada modesta!
… John S. Ascher, 5 October, 2006 - 1:34pm login or register to post comments

Andrena prunorum? (Andreniae)
.
… Adalbert Goertz, 25 April, 2006 - 1:07am login or register to post comments

 
no
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… John S. Ascher, 23 June, 2007 - 9:23pm login or register to post comments

An Andrenid?
I think maybe an andrenid bee. They're usually smaller and black with silver hairs, but it's a big family, and I've found a few red-tailed ones in TX. We'd probably need an extreme face close up or really great wing shot to know with more certainty.
… Stacey N Gingras, 19 April, 2006 - 10:14pm login or register to post comments

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