bidentate, spots all the way down tergites but much smaller than maculata
voucher specimens have 3-4 long tibial spines, not like maculata
potentially relevant Andrena in the area included heraclei, nasonii, cressonii - have picked up lepida-ish Nomada in the vicinity of Andrena rugosa nesting before. Suspect Trachandrena as host(s?).
This fuzzy little guy (c. 8 mm) keeps keying out as A. erythrogaster, which would be a new species for Dukes County/Martha's Vineyard. It seems a bit small, with the vertex rather long for that species. But apparently all-black males like this are not uncommon. Cheek shape; long, thin, reddish basitarsi; fairly short clypeus with dense pitting and a magnificent brush of pale hair; F1 slightly longer than F2; terga with no apical fascia and depressed, reddish hyaline margins; sternal subapical fimbriae with sparse long hairs, interrupted medially; and long. slender mandibles with prominent subapical teeth are among the erythrogaster-like traits I was able to capture. Collected from Epigaea repens.
Same location as a male from a few weeks ago. Many Nomada, and a few provisioning females.
Collected on Cardimine.
2 individuals, but from within a few feet of each other at a nesting aggregation of Andrena frigida(?). individual on ground was digging at a site that a female was actively provisioning.
Pan trap
ID notes:
A two-fer. This Observation is for Triepeolus.
Melissodes bimaculatus and Triepeolus lunatus roosting on Packera aurea in my front yard, July 2015.
T. lunatus is a cuckoo of M. bimaculatus, two-spotted long-horned bee.
This moth emerged from a Trailing Arbutus leaf I took in over a month ago (second image).
A petal-cutting sequence: she cut a neat strip from one of the petals of Oenothera macrocarpa. Unfortunately, I came along after most of the work had already been accomplished.
The first image is not in focus, but some of the subsequent shots are fairly sharp. I never got an image of dorsal tergum 6, so identification may be complicated; for what it's worth, notice that tergum 6 is clearly concave (note the "tail" visible in the first 3 images). There are also shots that give a surprising amount of detail about the dentation of the mandibles and the structure of the tarsi.
Male to match the female here:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/1848922/bgimage
I have other angles of the abdomen if needed.
At least some of the nests in this aggregation were being entered by more than one female. Here are two females that emerged one right after the other from the same burrow.
Pretty sure. Hair on thorax seemed not quite as pale as barbara (and a bit more rufous-y toned?), which also emerged over a month ago at 2 aggregations I know and are extremely worn by now. Photos also show differences in wing venation vs barbara (posterior and anterior sides of sm cell 2 much longer relative to 3 in perplexa than in barbara) and, I think (surprisingly) the pronotal angle.
is it a melecta with that lighter stripe? about the same size as a digger bee
Mating pair. Female had grayish color eyes while male had light green. Last photo of female after male flew off.
more/better pix tba
In felled tree
On brittle bush (Encelia farinosa).
Female visiting Cornus, species.
Seems to be close to A. integra, a Cornus specialist, but it isn't clear to me if that species is known from (or likely to occur in) Missouri. In any case, I don't know how to prove it one way or the other. I hope the photographs provide enough information for someone to make a determination.
separated from Northern by what I could tell: whiter stripes, bisected uppermost stripe on abdomen; from blackjacket by narrower white bands on abdomen
Mating pair on Goldenrod sp.flowers
on common ninebark, back garden
Possibly? Probably the third time I've caught it on camera but still haven't managed to properly ID yet, would appreciate input!
About 20 minutes after observing a Rusty Spider Wasp haul a wolf spider backwards some 70m from here, I found this Rusty Spider Wasp attacking a wolf spider. The spider actually stumbled off, perhaps to freeze up later
These wasps are rare enough in my experience that it could be the same wasp as this earlier obsersvation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131368688
Spider observed separately: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/131368694
Looks like this one captured a mating pair.
Found on a viburnum with other pollinators such as a potter wasp. They seem all to be in harmony with one another.
I assume these carpenter bees took over my bird house
No idea. Seemed like a gall wasp. There was a group of maybe 20 of them hovering over a pile of oak leaves, dipping onto the ground periodically