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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) » Cuckoo Bees (Nomadinae) » Epeolini » Triepeolus
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Bee - Triepeolus - male
Copyright © 2006 Steve Scott

Bee - Triepeolus - Male
Lawton, Van Buren County, Michigan, USA
July 22, 2006
Large enough, I took it for a wasp when I was imaging - but it looks more like a bee now. Possibly in the Megachilidae?

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Contributed by Steve Scott on 18 August, 2006 - 7:19pm
Last updated 11 June, 2007 - 8:51am

Moved
Moved from Epeolini.
… Steve Scott, 16 October, 2006 - 6:56pm login or register to post comments

Triepeolus
could be T. pectoralis
… John S. Ascher, 16 October, 2006 - 1:14pm login or register to post comments

Epeolini
Nomadinae
… John S. Ascher, 8 October, 2006 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

The flowers...
Are whitlow grass, Draba verna. Odd for it to be flowering this late.
… Patrick Alexander, 19 August, 2006 - 12:02am login or register to post comments

 
It was
a weed growing in a flowerbed so may have been seeded late.
… Steve Scott, 19 August, 2006 - 7:44pm login or register to post comments

Superb.
Probably the best images yet of either Epeolus or Triepeolus in the family Apidae, tribe Epeolini. These are cuckoo bees that are parasitic on other bees. Doug Yanega can probably tell us the genus eventually.
… Eric R. Eaton, 18 August, 2006 - 7:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Searching web
Description of Epeolus scutellaris looks promising as does the image at Cedar Creek
… Steve Scott, 23 August, 2006 - 2:10pm login or register to post comments

 
not Epeolus scutellaris
axillae too small and dark
… John S. Ascher, 8 October, 2006 - 12:02pm login or register to post comments

 
Great
I thought it was something different.
… Steve Scott, 19 August, 2006 - 7:45pm login or register to post comments

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