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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 » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Carpenter and Small carpenter Bees (Xylocopinae) » Small Carpenter Bees (Ceratina) » Subgenus Calloceratina (Ceratina Subgenus Calloceratina) » Ceratina cobaltina
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Halictid bee - Ceratina cobaltina
Copyright © 2012 Karen Sprague

Halictid bee - Ceratina cobaltina
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
March 18, 2012
One of the few bee species out in force this spring, all foraging on Salvia coccinea at the Houston Zoo.
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Contributed by Karen Sprague on 12 April, 2012 - 11:07am
Last updated 11 February, 2014 - 9:39am

Moved
Moved from Small Carpenter Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 11 February, 2014 - 9:39am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 13 April, 2012 - 4:28pm login or register to post comments

Site that might be helpful
http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Bee_genera&cl=US/VT
… Victor Engel, 12 April, 2012 - 1:22pm login or register to post comments

wasp
How about something in the Family Chrysididae - Cuckoo Wasp.
… Ilona L., 12 April, 2012 - 12:23pm login or register to post comments

UGH!
I wonder if I'll ever get the hang of this...
… Karen Sprague, 12 April, 2012 - 11:32am login or register to post comments

doesn't look like a halictid
… v belov, 12 April, 2012 - 11:16am login or register to post comments

 
Then what? I probably would h
Then what? I probably would have guessed halictid also. Ceratina maybe?
… Victor Engel, 12 April, 2012 - 12:08pm login or register to post comments

 
Maybe.
Ceratina would be my initial guess, but an indication of size would help immensely. Few small carpenter bees exceed 8 mm in length.
… Eric R. Eaton, 12 April, 2012 - 2:12pm login or register to post comments

 
why not Osmia?
but i'm by no means an expert, wait for a 2nd op.
… v belov, 12 April, 2012 - 12:37pm login or register to post comments

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