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Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees

 
 
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Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees · Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees · Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees · Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees · Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies

Family Andrenidae - Miner, Fairy, Allied Panurgine, and Oxaeine Bees
small bee - Perdita early spring bee - Andrena - male Andrena - female Nesting Andrena? - Andrena - female wasp? - Andrena - female Bee ~5mm - Macrotera - female Orange Thorax Bee - Andrena Mining Bee - Andrena wilkella

Family Apidae - Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees
Neolarra californica - female Bees with Green Eyes - Melissodes Bombus impatiens? - Bombus impatiens Solitary bee - Melissodes Melissodes bimaculatus - female Unknown Bumblebee - Bombus perplexus Ashmeadiella? - Melissodes Common Eastern Bumble Bee - Bombus

Family Colletidae - Cellophane, Plasterer, Masked, and Allied Bees
plasterer bee - Colletes inaequalis - female Cellophane Bee - Colletes thoracicus? - Colletes thoracicus - female Bee - Hylaeus ornatus Small bee or wasp? - Hylaeus modestus - male Eastern Masked Bee - Hylaeus modestus 5775 Hylaeus? - Hylaeus Please are these yellow jackets or bees? - Colletes thoracicus - male Solitary bee on my window0 - Colletes inaequalis - female

Family Halictidae - Sweat, Furrow, Nomiine, and Short-faced Bees
Lasioglossum sp.? - Lasioglossum Sweat Bees Halictus ligatus - Halictus (Odontalictus) ligatus - Halictus ligatus Small black wasp (oops, it's a bee) - Lasioglossum Bee #1 on dandelion - Halictus augochlora or augochlorella - Augochlora pura Small striped dark colored bee on native Clarkia plant - Halictus - female Augochlorini - Augochlora pura - female Sweat bee - Lasioglossum

Family Megachilidae - Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies
Anthidium palliventre ? - Anthidium Megachilid? - Anthidium manicatum Osmiini - Hoplitis albifrons - male bees nesting in plant stem - Hoplitis Megachile pugnata - male Female Cactus woodborer bee Lithurgopsis littoralis - Lithurgopsis littoralis - female bee - Osmia Bee on Birdsfoot trefoil - Lotus corniculatum - Megachile - female

 
 
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