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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) » Panurgine Bees (Panurginae) » Fairy Bees and Allies (Panurgini) » Fairy and Goblin Bees (Perditina) » Fairy Bees (Perdita) » Subgenus Perdita (Perdita Subgenus Perdita) » octomaculata species group (Perdita octomaculata species group) » Eight-spotted Miner Bee (Perdita octomaculata)
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Species Perdita octomaculata - Perdita octomaculata - female
Copyright © 2006 Bill Claff

Species Perdita octomaculata - Perdita octomaculata - Female
Wellfleet, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA
September 30, 2006
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Contributed by Bill Claff on 9 October, 2006 - 11:19am
Last updated 9 October, 2006 - 4:55pm

Perdita octomaculata
female; Perdita females have short scopal hairs because they use moisture to stick the large pollen load to the hind tibia; males have yellow maculations of T5
… John S. Ascher, 9 October, 2006 - 3:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John
I'm learning slowly. So lack of pollen just means she hasn't collected any yet.
… Bill Claff, 9 October, 2006 - 3:10pm login or register to post comments

 
or she groomed it all off
after her latest collecting trip
… John S. Ascher, 21 September, 2008 - 2:37pm login or register to post comments

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