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MatBio: BEETLES, FLIES, TRUE BUGS and OTHER INSECTS - Matanzas Biodiversity

Welcome to our series of field guides - part of the MatBio Initiative at the Whitney Laboratory of Marine Bioscience! Our guides document the plant and animal species living in the Matanzas Basin, a coastal ecosystem stretching from St. Augustine to Palm Coast in NE Florida. They are works in ...more ↓

Virescent Green Metallic Bee 1
Agapostemon virescens
Paper Wasp 2
Polistes fuscatus pallipes
Eastern Yellowjacket 3
Vespula maculifrons
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber 4
Sceliphron caementarium
Black Carpenter Ant 5
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Fire Ant 6
Solenopsis wagneri
Honey Bee 7
Apis mellifera
American Bumble Bee 8
Bombus pensylvanicus
Eastern Carpenter Bee 9
Xylocopa virginica
Red Velvet Ant 10
Dasymutilla occidentalis
Euodynerus bidens 11
Eastern Cicada Killer 12
Sphecius speciosus

Edited by matbio and Jose Nunez

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