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Van Dyke's Bumble Bee (Bombus vandykei)Observer
johnkoltsDescription
On Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifolium)
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Death Camas Mining Bee (Andrena astragali)Observer
johndreynoldsDescription
Rocky Bluffs above sea. Read Island Provincial Park, BC, Canada
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Farewell-To-Spring (Clarkia amoena)Observer
amycampionDescription
Bumble bee sleeping in Clarkia flower. Grown from seed, Steele Acres Seed.
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Black-tailed Bumble Bee (Bombus melanopygus)Observer
lyfisgrandDescription
tiny little worker I guess
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Silver-tailed Petalcutter (Megachile montivaga)Observer
jessicawDescription
This is the 5th hole excavated in the stem of a giant coneflower. She's using wild rose petals to line them.
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Silver-tailed Petalcutter (Megachile montivaga)Observer
pam-piombinoDescription
This leaf-cutter bee made a nest in the stem of a dill (which I let self-seed for Black Swallowtails larval food. At first, it was just a hole in the stem, but a wind storm broke it in two.
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Silver-tailed Petalcutter (Megachile montivaga)Observer
brburkeDescription
Burrowing in to the stock of a Pale Indian Plantain (Arnoglossum atriplicifolium)
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Silver-tailed Petalcutter (Megachile montivaga)Observer
wenatcheebDescription
Megachile cutting petals for her nest. She carried them down to the stems in the brush and seemed to be shoving them into a cracked stem at the base of the flowers. There is that Silver-tailed Petal-cutting bee, maybe she is one of those?
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Silver-tailed Petalcutter (Megachile montivaga)Observer
larissakhDescription
Second year in a row these bees have shown up to pollinate and harvest Clarkia amoena petals for nesting.
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Silver-tailed Petalcutter (Megachile montivaga)Observer
ololaikiDescription
She was collecting Clarkia amoena petals for nest cells lining.
Video:
https://ololaiki.smugmug.com/Animals/Other-1/Bees/Leafcutter-Bees/Megachile-montivaga/i-xsGQv8G/A
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Silver-tailed Petalcutter (Megachile montivaga)Observer
nature4lzwDescription
It is unusual to see pollinators at Vinca flowers, so I started snapping photos of this native bee. It was not gathering pollen or nectar--but cutting petals for its nest. (Such smooth cuts!) Note: The order of these photos is last to first.
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Mason Bees (Genus Osmia)Observer
wenatcheebDescription
Salvia dorii plants planted in yard.
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Subgenus AgapostemonObserver
wenatcheebDescription
Sphaerralcea planted in yard.
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Small Carpenter Bees (Genus Ceratina)Observer
wenatcheebDescription
Bronze color?
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Great Basin Bumble Bee (Bombus centralis)Observer
johnkoltsDescription
On wax current (Ribes cereum)
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Tricolored Bumble Bee (Bombus ternarius)Observer
jbinpgDescription
Female (likely a queen given date and large size) B. ternarius on staminate Scouler's Willow. Scout Island, Williams Lake, BC, Canada..
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Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)Observer
marlenejohnstonDescription
or a Whiskered Bumble Fly??? I included several photos since inat had several suggestions.
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Winged and Once-winged Insects (Subclass Pterygota)Observer
marlenejohnstonDescription
This might be the same bee/bumble fly as the other observation but I can't be sure
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Blood Bees (Genus Sphecodes)Observer
eebeeDescription
When it was head-down in this plant, its metasoma blended in well with the plant parts!
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Oval-headed Sweat Bee (Lasioglossum ovaliceps)Observer
janeabelDescription
Bee on Peach-leaf willow
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Frigid Mining Bee (Andrena frigida)Observer
janeabelDescription
Bee on Peach-leaf willow.
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
tessanoelDescription
Digging burrow, while a bunch of possibly parasitic flies that I documented here: ( https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208370558 ) were waiting to lay or flick eggs into the nests.
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
wildnettleDescription
This observation is for the bottom/inner bee, the one without the white mustache.
Other bee: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208131355
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Vancouver Island Bumble Bee (Bombus vancouverensis ssp. vancouverensis)Observer
bstarzomski
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Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)Observer
dean-sinnettDescription
This bee seems to be setting up a nest in an abandoned hydro conduit.
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Vancouver Island Bumble Bee (Bombus vancouverensis ssp. vancouverensis)Observer
islanddeborah
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Vancouver Island Bumble Bee (Bombus vancouverensis ssp. vancouverensis)Observer
kaitlynplantz
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Oval-headed Sweat Bee (Lasioglossum ovaliceps)Observer
wildnettleDescription
Bee
Wasp in image 2: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/207902159
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California Bumble Bee (Bombus californicus)Observer
bobmcdDescription
released
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Orange-legged Furrow Bee (Halictus rubicundus)Observer
kevintooDescription
Two bees at their burrow entrance in an aggregation of 2000+.
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Ashy Digger Bee (Habropoda cineraria)Observer
kenchamberlainDescription
on Golden Currant Ribes aureum
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Pacific Dune-Digger (Habropoda miserabilis)Observer
bradmoonDescription
Several males grasped this recently emerged female but then let her go quickly. After several attempted matings like that, she flew away and was grabbed in mid-air by another male. I didn't see the outcome of that attempted mating.
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Pacific Dune-Digger (Habropoda miserabilis)Observer
bradmoonDescription
Female digging a nest
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Yellow-faced Bumble Bee (Bombus vosnesenskii)Observer
thfukuharaDescription
Carrying pollen on legs
