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Sleeping bees - Melissodes bimaculatus - male
Copyright © 2006 Hannah Nendick-Mason

Sleeping bees - Melissodes bimaculatus - Male
Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida, USA
May 26, 2006
These bees have spent the last four nights, perhaps more, sleeping on this Bush Marigold (Tagetes lemmonii). Are they the same genus as these I photographed in July 2004?


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Sleeping bees - Melissodes bimaculatus - male Sleeping bees - Melissodes bimaculatus - male
Contributed by Hannah Nendick-Mason on 26 May, 2006 - 8:46am
Last updated 7 August, 2006 - 8:05pm

Anthophorines
I would bet these are Anthophorine bees.
e.g.:
-Sean McCann


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… Sean McCann, 26 May, 2006 - 9:51am

 
Agreed.
These are all males, too, probably of Melissodes bimaculatus. Neat behavior you have captured here.
… Eric R. Eaton, 26 May, 2006 - 1:37pm

 
Thanks! Is there a feature that would confirm species?
I could easily capture and chill one of these tonight. They are very predictable!
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 26 May, 2006 - 1:49pm

 
Tribe?
We currently have Melissodes under tribe Eucerini not Anthophorini. Is this incorrect?
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 26 May, 2006 - 2:36pm

 
Moved
to new species page.

"Anthophorine" is ambiguous- it can be either Anthophorinae or Anthophorini. I think here the reference is to the former subfamily Anthophorinae, which used to contain both Anthophorini and Eucerini
… Chuck Entz, 7 August, 2006 - 8:13pm

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