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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) » Halictini » Lasioglossum » Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees (Lasioglossum Subgenus Dialictus, Metallic-Sweat Bees)
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Very Small Bee - Lasioglossum - female
Copyright © 2011 Matt Bearup

Very Small Bee - Lasioglossum - Female
Selah, Yakima County, Washington, USA
July 22, 2011
Size: About the size of an ant.
Very small active metallic green /copper colored bee about the size of an ant. Seems to show up with a group of other members of the same species then they all leave at the same time.

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Very Small Bee - Lasioglossum - female Very Small Bee - Lasioglossum
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Contributed by Matt Bearup on 22 July, 2011 - 4:03pm
Last updated 15 November, 2011 - 2:06pm

Adult female
Adult female. Please, include this kind of information in the data fields when you have it. I did it for you this time.
… Beatriz Moisset, 15 November, 2011 - 2:06pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
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