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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) » Mining Bees (Andreninae) » Andrena » Subgenus Uncertain (Andrena Subgenus Uncertain) » Andrena cerasifolii
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Andrena - Andrena cerasifolii - female
Copyright © 2007 Hartmut Wisch

Andrena - Andrena cerasifolii - Female
Eaton Canyon Natural Area, Los Angeles County, California, USA
March 5, 2007
Size: ~12mm
On Isomeris arborea (Bladderpod).
A rather robust bee.

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Andrena - Andrena cerasifolii - female Andrena - Andrena cerasifolii - female Andrena - Andrena cerasifolii - female
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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 5 March, 2007 - 3:29pm
Last updated 29 December, 2007 - 4:48pm

Moved
Moved from Andrena.
… Hartmut Wisch, 20 April, 2007 - 3:35pm login or register to post comments

Andrena (Melandrena) cerasifolii Cockerell, 1896
female
… John S. Ascher, 20 April, 2007 - 3:18pm login or register to post comments

 
I wondered about this,
still have a couple of other images from Eaton Canyon, but was busy with house chores.
So, thanks, John, for the ID!
… Hartmut Wisch, 20 April, 2007 - 3:40pm login or register to post comments

Andrena
female
… John S. Ascher, 5 March, 2007 - 6:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Wow!
I'm glad you got to this first. I would surely have called her an Osmia:-) Never seen a metallic andrenid before....
… Eric R. Eaton, 6 March, 2007 - 1:31pm login or register to post comments

 
Interesting,
Osmia was my thought as I looked through the lens. On my computer screen, I saw the three submarginals which rule out Megachilidae as far as I know. However, I didn't get farther than a mental listing of some possibilities. Happily, John came to the rescue!
Out of curiosity I looked for species names indicating either 'green' or Osmia-like. This doesn't get me any closer to a species ID, but I wanted to know about green Andrena: A. viridescens (RED-listed in Germany), viridigastra (Uzbekistan), viridissima (subgenus Derandrena, from San Benito, CA).
I also found (all on Discover Life) an Andrena I'd like to look for next time I'm in the Winnemucca, NV, area: A. winnemuccana. That town used to post ads reading "5 billion people have never been there". Very few of 6.5 billion people have ever heard of Andrena winnemuccana (listed as "vulnerable" - due to heap-leach mining in the area?). Now I'm really curious! OOPS - collected at Owyhee Dam, OR)
… Hartmut Wisch, 6 March, 2007 - 1:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks John,
for the ID.
… Hartmut Wisch, 5 March, 2007 - 6:39pm login or register to post comments

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