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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) » Masked Bees (Hylaeus) » Subgenus Paraprosopis (Hylaeus Subgenus Paraprosopis) » Florida Masked Bee (Hylaeus floridanus)
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Bee or Wasp? - Hylaeus floridanus
Copyright © 2014 Lisa I.

Bee or Wasp? - Hylaeus floridanus
Deane, Letcher County, Kentucky, USA
September 14, 2014
Size: 6mm
The legs look like the Pseudopanurgus compositarum, but they eyes are black. The waist looks like a wasp.
Found on Goldenrod flower.

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Contributed by Lisa I. on 14 September, 2014 - 7:23pm
Last updated 14 February, 2022 - 4:37pm

Hylaeus floridanus
Moved from Eastern Modest Masked Bee. ID'd by Karen Wright @ TAMU.
… Brad Barnd, 14 February, 2022 - 4:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you and Karen Wright.
Thank you and Karen Wright.
Amazing.
… Lisa I., 15 February, 2022 - 8:36am login or register to post comments

Hylaeus modestus Say, male
Specimen now a photo-voucher. Thanks Lisa.
… Brad Barnd, 3 July, 2017 - 10:17pm login or register to post comments

 
Specimen deposited in TAMUIC
… Brad Barnd, 10 November, 2021 - 3:52pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John S. Ascher, 15 September, 2014 - 6:04am login or register to post comments

Reminds me of Hylaeus


But bees make my head hurt, so that's strictly a guess on my part. Dr. Ascher will let you know if I'm anywhere close. :)
… Ken Wolgemuth, 14 September, 2014 - 8:14pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks!
I wonder why some have yellow legs and some black?
… Lisa I., 14 September, 2014 - 9:33pm login or register to post comments

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