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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) » pilosum species group (Lasioglossum pilosum species group)
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Sweat Bee - Lasioglossum
Copyright © 2012 Robert Lord Zimlich

Sweat Bee - Lasioglossum
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
May 25, 2012
Size: 7-8mm
Looks like a fuzzy, alate a*t to me. So, what is it really?

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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 26 May, 2012 - 2:28pm
Last updated 28 May, 2016 - 12:26pm

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 6 June, 2012 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

Lasioglossum (Dialictus) female
pilosum species group

maybe L. floridanum
… John S. Ascher, 6 June, 2012 - 8:23pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ants, Stinging Wasps, and Hornets.
… George Waldren, 5 June, 2012 - 3:38pm login or register to post comments

A bee.
If you want something more definitive, you'll need to wait for Dr. Ascher. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 26 May, 2012 - 3:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Ahhh ....
Looks similar the Sweat Bee I saw in Iowa last summer, so Asher should know for shure

… Robert Lord Zimlich, 26 May, 2012 - 3:32pm login or register to post comments

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