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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 » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Mason bees and relatives (Osmiini) » Mason Bees (Osmia) » Subgenus Melanosmia (Osmia Subgenus Melanosmia) » Osmia clarescens
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Osmia - Osmia clarescens - male
Copyright © 2013 Hartmut Wisch

Osmia - Osmia clarescens - Male
Theodore Payne Foundation garden, Sun Valley, Los Angeles County, California, USA
March 27, 2013
Size: ~ 7 mm
Found in Clarkia unguiculata patch ~ 3:00 PM.
My guess is that this is the same species as the female I found cutting leaf nearby:


Molly Rightmeyer Gee thinks this is a pretty good fit for O. clarescens, at least based on hair color pattern. Molly also mentioned that they tend to be "kind of blue-greenish with brassy highlights (esp in male), and rather more white hair than usual except for the dark hair dorsally".
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 28 March, 2013 - 7:47pm
Last updated 13 July, 2013 - 1:09pm

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Melanosmia.
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Moved
Moved from Osmiini.
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