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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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Cellophane Bees - Colletes inaequalis
Copyright © 2013 John Pearson

Cellophane Bees - Colletes inaequalis
Red Rock Wildlife Area, Lake Red Rock, Knoxville, Marion County, Iowa, USA
April 28, 2013
Size: ~12 mm
Numerous small bees were alighting as scattered individuals on a sandy beach along Red Rock Reservoir. I then discovered this aggregation of dozens of them in a patch of flotsam on the beach; here are close-ups of a subset of the larger group.

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Contributed by John Pearson on 28 April, 2013 - 8:21pm
Last updated 5 May, 2013 - 6:11pm

Moved
Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 5 May, 2013 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

Andrena?
looks like Andrena to me but i could be wrong (not an expert, wait for others)
… hg, 3 May, 2013 - 9:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Could certainly be Andrena
I can't rule out Colletes from this picture...especially C. inaequalis looks similar to this bee:
… Keng-Lou James Hung, 4 May, 2013 - 1:01am login or register to post comments

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