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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 » Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees (Colletidae) » Cellophane bees (Colletes) » Unequal Cellophane Bee (Colletes inaequalis)
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Bee - Colletes inaequalis - male - female
Copyright © 2013 Tom Klein

Bee - Colletes inaequalis - Male Female
Pheasant Branch Conservancy, Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
April 22, 2013
Even though this male (on top) won the battle to mate, I'm not sure it was a successful mating - first he got brushed off by a low-hanging blade of grass the female went under, and then she entered a nest hole, which forced him to dismount.

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Contributed by Tom Klein on 22 April, 2013 - 10:06pm
Last updated 28 June, 2013 - 1:54am

Moved
Moved from Cellophane bees.
… John S. Ascher, 28 June, 2013 - 1:54am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… Keng-Lou James Hung, 25 April, 2013 - 1:00am login or register to post comments

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Moved from ID Request.
… Keng-Lou James Hung, 25 April, 2013 - 12:58am login or register to post comments

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Just saw the comment on the other set of photos so I retracted my guess:)
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