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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 » Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees (Andrenidae) » Mining Bees (Andreninae) » Andrena » Subgenus Melandrena (Andrena Subgenus Melandrena) » Andrena barbara
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Mining Bee (Andrena sp.) - Andrena barbara - female
Copyright © 2013 Ted Kropiewnicki

Mining Bee (Andrena sp.) - Andrena barbara - Female
Bear, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
April 19, 2013
Size: ~ 13 mm
I noticed several dozen clumps of dirt on the grass alongside of our driveway. This bee was one of many bees that are going down into 6-7 mm holes at center of clumps. Soil type being brought up indicates that these holes are around 1 foot or more in depth.
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Contributed by Ted Kropiewnicki on 20 April, 2013 - 9:57pm
Last updated 29 March, 2014 - 12:33am

Moved
Moved from Andrena.
… John S. Ascher, 29 March, 2014 - 12:33am login or register to post comments

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Andrena female
Resembles A.barbara
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