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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 » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Masked Bees (Hylaeus) » Subgenus Paraprosopis (Hylaeus Subgenus Paraprosopis)
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Little Black Wasp - Hylaeus
Copyright © 2006 Chuck Entz

Little Black Wasp - Hylaeus
Encino, Los Angeles County, California, USA
April 7, 2006
Size: 1/8-1/4 inch
On Wild Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum) in my front yard.

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Contributed by Chuck Entz on 8 April, 2006 - 11:38am
Last updated 26 December, 2009 - 11:54am

Moved
Moved from Yellow-masked Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 26 December, 2009 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

Hylaeus
This is a bee genus Hylaeus. They are very characteristic once you remember them. Theey have these beautiful white to yellow markings on their black (sometimes red) hairless body. This is a female, the males have more yellow on the face.
… Martin Hauser, 8 April, 2006 - 10:47pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I'm glad I'm not the only one who mistook these for wasps. :)
… Chuck Entz, 9 April, 2006 - 1:07am login or register to post comments

 
Hylaeus modestus
Looks like Hylaeus moedestus.
… Adalbert Goertz, 28 May, 2006 - 9:01am login or register to post comments

 
no it does not
looks like subgenus Paraprosopis
… John S. Ascher, 26 December, 2009 - 11:54am login or register to post comments

bee?
maybe a carpenter bee? or maybe a digger wasp?
… Omar Fahmy, 8 April, 2006 - 12:08pm login or register to post comments

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