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November 3, 2023
08:43 PM EDT
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December 27, 2023
02:26 PM EST
Description
Population was briefly monitored over several weeks while conducting another pollinator study in the habitat. Oak pollen isn't considered nutritious in most literature, but must be useful to some degree. As the Quercus inopina pollen became available, there was stiff competition between females for the best catkins on the tree. Resources are limited at this site, which was xeric scrub.
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August 7, 2022
11:08 PM EDT
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September 19, 2022
05:40 PM EDT
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March 5, 2018
08:08 PM PST
Description
Pollinating Calliandra eriophylla (fairy duster) along the Senita Basin Trail in Organ Pipe Cactus Wilderness/Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
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November 12, 2022
05:01 AM UTC
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March 1, 2024
07:05 PM MST
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January 29, 2024
03:59 PM UTC
Description
I've been thinking Eucera [Synhalonia] rosae, but after looking at the AI's suggestions I'm going to have to go back to square one and think this through.
In spite of getting a lot of photos showing various details, I only managed one oblique shot of the face.
Help would be very much appreciated.
A male in the same tribe (same species?) was seen about 5 hours after this sighting in almost the same spot: see https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/197900166.
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February 29, 2024
06:58 PM MST
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April 18, 2023
10:16 AM MST
Description
~9 mm. On an Encelia farinosa flower. AI is "pretty sure" this is Hesperapis genus. Abdomen ends in a soft point, eyes appeared dark.
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February 26, 2024
11:57 AM EST
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August 7, 2019
08:02 AM EDT
Description
Nectaring on Galactia erecta, NC Sandhills Game Lands, 8/6/2019.
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February 22, 2024
02:21 PM EST
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October 27, 2023
05:39 PM EDT
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December 4, 2021
10:52 PM EST
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November 3, 2023
02:48 PM UTC
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June 1, 2023
11:41 PM UTC
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January 31, 2022
05:48 PM EST
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February 14, 2024
06:51 PM EST
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August 14, 2022
03:10 PM EDT
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February 8, 2024
12:12 PM EST
Description
Apocynum androsaemifolium 553
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April 27, 2020
10:49 PM EDT
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March 17, 2023
04:40 PM CDT
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March 17, 2023
03:38 PM CDT
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March 17, 2023
04:50 PM CDT
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April 7, 2023
09:23 PM UTC
Description
Flight pattern seemed similar to a yellow jacket, but this individual was half the size of the yellow jacket queens I'm seeing in the yard.
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April 16, 2023
01:17 PM CDT
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May 24, 2023
10:22 AM EDT
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April 20, 2022
06:07 PM EDT
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April 12, 2022
10:57 AM UTC
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April 3, 2022
05:09 PM CDT
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April 3, 2022
05:41 PM CDT
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April 3, 2022
03:22 PM HST
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April 3, 2022
03:27 PM HST
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April 25, 2021
04:22 PM CDT
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April 29, 2021
06:53 PM EDT
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April 22, 2021
11:51 AM UTC
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April 15, 2021
03:30 PM HST
Description
On alternate-leaf dogwood. ID based on discoverlife key followed up by description. Some noteworthy features: translucent brown tegulae; translucent reddish apical border of tergites; puncture pattern on T2 similar to photo; smoky wings; orange hairs on T6-T7. First time I have been able to see “propodeal triangle” in one of my photos.
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April 11, 2021
10:09 PM EDT
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April 6, 2021
06:14 PM EDT
Description
On a holly tree, which just exploded with testy bumble bees and Yellowjackets, and so forth. No aggression noted from this one.
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April 20, 2020
09:51 PM EDT
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April 20, 2020
09:52 PM EDT
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April 20, 2020
09:52 PM EDT
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April 12, 2020
09:10 PM UTC
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March 8, 2021
10:13 PM EST
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April 14, 2020
11:05 AM HST
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April 2, 2020
03:10 PM CDT
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April 2, 2020
05:18 PM EDT
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April 26, 2019
09:40 PM EDT
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April 3, 2019
07:17 PM EDT
Description
Straight basal vein, curved 3rd submarginal, second recurrent straight
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April 10, 2018
05:10 PM EDT
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April 22, 2021
07:58 PM EDT
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June 29, 2021
04:29 PM EDT
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May 17, 2023
03:37 PM UTC
Description
- female, with pale yellow-orange scopial hairs
- two vs three submarginal cells on forewings
- areolum pad on front feet
- orange hairs on thorax, abdomen & legs
- horn-like protrusions on face above mandibles
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April 20, 2023
08:36 PM EDT
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July 24, 2023
10:12 PM CDT
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January 27, 2024
11:37 AM EST
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September 10, 2019
11:41 PM EDT
Description
Native bee on oxeye sunflower.
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July 13, 2020
01:56 PM CDT
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July 15, 2021
10:16 AM CDT
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July 15, 2021
10:16 AM CDT
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June 13, 2021
12:39 AM EDT
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July 8, 2023
09:18 AM EDT
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April 28, 2019
11:02 PM CDT
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June 2, 2023
12:19 AM EDT
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June 4, 2023
03:01 PM CDT
Description
Observed on cultivated lance-leaved coreopsis (Coreopsis lanceolata)
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June 10, 2023
07:29 PM EDT
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June 10, 2023
07:28 PM EDT
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November 5, 2020
08:16 PM EST
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April 28, 2021
10:22 AM HST
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July 28, 2022
01:18 PM CDT
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August 27, 2023
09:41 PM UTC
Description
A female bee, one of a number of bees exploring the remnants of a bonfire that had been lit (illegally) in the parking lot over night.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a shot of the face, which might have helped clear up my confusion.
The AI is suggesting Colletes, in particular C. thoracicus. But the seasonality does not work for that bee, and I'm not aware that it ever has the uniformly wide pale apical hairbands across all terga 1-5 that are evident on this bee.
Is Andrena a possiblity?
The AI also gave an honorable mention to Peponapsis pruinosa.
Whatever it turns out to be, it is a very striking bee. I hope someone recognizes it.
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January 21, 2024
01:56 PM HST
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July 21, 2023
12:42 PM EDT
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June 6, 2022
01:37 PM EDT
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May 27, 2023
09:56 PM UTC
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July 4, 2023
06:18 PM EDT
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January 13, 2024
12:45 AM UTC
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January 10, 2024
04:39 PM EST
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June 12, 2022
12:52 PM EDT
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November 1, 2022
10:05 PM PDT
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June 11, 2021
12:21 AM PDT
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July 2, 2021
03:51 PM UTC
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August 2, 2021
08:41 PM PDT
Description
Oh boy. OK, it's a bee. Ha.
The first thing that jumps out is the long, thick antennae. It doesn't appear to have bands of abdominal setae consistent with Lasioglossum or Halictus, and it's fuzzier in the thorax and face that most of those that I've seen. The smoothish abdomen and fuzzy front end almost suggests Andrena, but a close look at the face doesn't actually appear to show facial foveae; I know it's difficult to tell in some species and I could be wrong there.
But let's assume all of that is right (which is unlikely). Not a sweat bee, not Andrena, long antennae. It's not fluffy enough to be Melissodes and the eye is wrong. That would make it... Eucera?
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July 17, 2023
04:39 PM UTC
Description
2023 Secrest/ORIP: 9Y (third)
Any ID help welcome!
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August 23, 2023
03:14 PM UTC
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September 22, 2023
10:54 AM PDT
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June 12, 2022
05:15 PM -05
Description
Foraging among large patches of these low white flowers on a roadside. The convergent lateral margins of the clypeus suggest L. leucocomus rather than L. pilosum.
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June 15, 2021
06:39 PM PDT
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February 10, 2019
12:24 AM EST
Description
Thymalus marginicollis. Rock Creek Park, Washington, DC, USA.
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December 13, 2023
08:40 AM EST
Description
Not my observation: posted with the permission of Simon Hickman, who is not an iNat user, who found this on Lambert's Cove beach, West Tisbury. Presumably, it arrived at our latitude in a Gulf Stream eddy.
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August 22, 2020
05:58 PM UTC
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June 28, 2020
10:47 AM EDT
Description
Could be B. fervidus. Only got this one photo.
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July 6, 2023
06:06 PM EDT
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December 2, 2023
01:29 PM UTC
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April 27, 2019
07:53 PM EDT
Description
18 Apr 2019.
Bull's Island State Park, Hunterdon Co, NJ.
Found emerging from a hole in a lawn.
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July 11, 2018
03:30 PM EDT
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July 11, 2018
03:30 PM EDT
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July 11, 2018
03:30 PM EDT
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September 27, 2020
04:44 PM HST