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Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus)Observer
tmurray74Description
The Red-shouldered is driving the larger Red-tailed Hawk out of its territory.
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Pygmy Bee Fly (Bombylius pygmaeus)Observer
tmurray74Place
Montague Plains Wildlife Management Area, 74 Lake Pleasant Rd, Montague, MA 01351, USA (Google, OSM)
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Mining Bees (Genus Andrena)Observer
mpelikanDescription
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.
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Miserable Mining Bee (Andrena miserabilis)Observer
mmccarthy98Description
Including photos of females with two of their parasites here - Nomada illinoensis/sayi and Leucophora
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Sphecodes confertusObserver
mmccarthy98Description
a parasite of Andrena, perhaps miserabilis here. They dig to find nests, and only miserabilis has regularly dirt-plugged nests here at this date.
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Red-tailed Mining Bee (Andrena erythrogaster)Observer
riverannaDescription
Mating!
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Eastern Muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus ssp. zibethicus)Observer
dongminsungDescription
Confirm?
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Mustard Miner Bee (Andrena arabis)Observer
beesearcherDescription
clypeus somewhat taller than miserabilis, and white not yellow; patrolling cardamine douglasii
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Bradley's Mining Bee (Andrena bradleyi)Observer
mpelikanDescription
Female. Found under a pile of loose sand that was probably the start of a nest burrow. I poked at the sand, expecting to find a burrow that had been blocked, and found her instead. After taking photos, I returned her to where I found her.
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Bradley's Mining Bee (Andrena bradleyi)Observer
mpelikanDescription
Collected from Epigaea repens. Female, 9.9 mm. Long malar, narrow vertex and gena, crossing mandibles, dark scopa, coarse punctures on clypeus with broad impunctate center line.
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Gracile Nomad (Nomada gracilis)Observer
ddubois2Description
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.
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Frigid Mining Bee (Andrena frigida)Observer
ddubois2Description
Same location as a male from a few weeks ago. Many Nomada, and a few provisioning females.
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Horn-faced Mason Bee (Osmia cornifrons)Observer
teamfortifierDescription
Breeding pair found on the ground. After picking them up, the male refused to release the female, who wiggled around unsuccessfully. Animals were released after photography.
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Clark's Mining Bee (Andrena clarkella)Observer
katelyncorcoranDescription
Ground-dwelling, observed digging in soft ground. At least 4 bees observed in area at the time. Pictured are two separate specimens. Exact species unknown by me, but believed to bee Andrena Clarkella?
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beesearcherDescription
On Pityopsis falcata, could it be M. dentiventris? Had a color and general impression unlike any common orange melissodes that I've encountered.
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cgwilsonDescription
Gynandromorph! Posted with permission from Barr Entomological Museum.
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Dark-footed Yellow Loosestrife Bee (Macropis nuda)Observer
btkDescription
On Lysimachia cilata 633
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Fringed Loosestrife Oil Bee (Macropis ciliata)Observer
btkDescription
Apocynum androsaemifolium 581 8mm
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Short-tongued Miner Bee (Andrena brevipalpis)Observer
mmccarthy98Description
common here on Rhus glabra
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Nelumbo Masked Bee (Hylaeus nelumbonis)Observer
beeboyDescription
First state record. Collected with permission, several on Water Smartweed
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Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens)Observer
hcosteDescription
Bombus enjoying the flowers of Sporobolus alterniflorus https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/192932263
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Carlin's Mining Bee (Andrena carlini)Observer
cgwilsonDescription
Aggregation at 8:30 a.m.
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American Bumble Bee (Bombus pensylvanicus)Observer
rosreilDescription
On Hibiscus moscheutos
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Morning Glory Turret Bee (Melitoma taurea)Observer
meristemmingDescription
On cultivated swamp mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)
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Pickerelweed Longhorn Bee (Melissodes apicatus)Observer
colleen99Description
on liatris, back garden - repeatedly sticking its "tongue" in and out as if tasting one of the not-yet-opened buds
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Obliterated Longhorn-Cuckoo (Triepeolus obliteratus)Observer
colleen99Description
After looking through Triepeolus species on BugGuide, I'm wondering if this might be Triepeolus eliseae. I have additional photos if they'd be helpful, but unfortunately only the one (included here in this entry) that shows the bee from the rear - and it's somewhat blurry as the bee was spinning on the flower when I snapped that picture, and it flew away a few seconds later. Bee found on rudbeckia, back yard.
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Swamp Rose Mallow (Hibiscus moscheutos)Observer
sarahbirdwebbDescription
mallow
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mpelikanDescription
Female, absolute beast of a bee, 15.9 mm long. Collected off of Rudbeckia hirta on a farm.
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Nearctic Broadhand Sedgesitter (Platycheirus nearcticus)Observer
nbdragonflyguy
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Oblique-banded Pond Fly (Sericomyia chrysotoxoides)Observer
mpelikanDescription
Visited Euthamia graminifolia, in project plot.
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Lapland Azalea (Rhododendron lapponicum)Observer
mountainmolluskDescription
and a bumblebee!
