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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) » Honey, Bumble, Longhorn, Orchid, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Mourning Bees (Melectini) » Melecta » Melecta separata » Melecta separata callura
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Melecta? - Melecta separata
Copyright © 2012 nvhamlett@gmail.com

Melecta? - Melecta separata
Claremont, Los Angeles County, California, USA
March 2, 2012
This bee landed near then went into an Anthophora pacifica burrow at the Claremont Colleges’ Robert J. Bernard Field Station. I wondered if it might be the same Melecta sp. that we saw at the same location in 2010 and 2011:



This year’s photos are all rather blurry, but I hope that amongst them there’s enough information to confirm genus.

I’m curious to see how the A. pacifica – Melecta dynamic will play out in the long run. This is fairly large A. pacifica colony – a visiting researcher counted 237 burrows this year – but the cuckoo bees have clearly discovered them.

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Contributed by nvhamlett@gmail.com on 13 May, 2012 - 12:17pm
Last updated 15 April, 2014 - 7:48pm

Moved
Moved from Melecta.
… John S. Ascher, 15 April, 2014 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and Stinging Wasps.
… John S. Ascher, 15 May, 2012 - 9:10am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
Thanks for confirming Melecta.
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