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Very Large Honey Bee - Apis mellifera
Copyright © 2014 stonebird

Very Large Honey Bee - Apis mellifera
Los Angeles, Ballona Wetlands, California, USA
July 20, 2014
Size: 1 inch or more
Any comments on this large Honey Bee visiting heliotrope flowers . I assume is Apis mellifera but I would like some perspective on the large size, It was as large as a scollid wasp visiting the same flowers
Contributed by stonebird on 21 July, 2014 - 1:22am
Last updated 21 July, 2014 - 8:39am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 21 July, 2014 - 8:39am

Worker
Honey bee
… John S. Ascher, 21 July, 2014 - 8:38am

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