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Calgary Insect Pollinators Guide

This is a beginning guide to Calgary's insect pollinators. The goal is to highlight some of the many insect pollinators you may encounter in the city and through participating in the Calgary Pollinator Count (see ...more ↓

Silver-tailed Petalcutter 1
Megachile montivaga
Thread-waisted Wasps 2
Sphecidae
Hump-backed Beewolf 3
Philanthus gibbosus
Dark-veined Longhorn Bee 4
Melissodes trinodis
Ligated Furrow Bee 5
Halictus ligatus
Longhorn-cuckoo bees 6
Triepeolus
Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee 7
Megachile pugnata
Orange-tipped Wood-digger 8
Anthophora terminalis
Pseudopanurgus 9
Golden-tailed Leafcutter Bee 10
Megachile relativa
Megachile parallela 11
Black Shortface 12
Dufourea maura
Eutricharaea 13
Neotrypetes 14
Dianthidium 15
Forest Bumble Bee 16
Bombus sylvicola
Flat-tailed Leaf-cutter Bee 17
Megachile mendica
Cutworm Wasps 18
Podalonia
Typical Weevil Wasps and Allies 19
Cerceris
Two Moons Beewolf 20
Philanthus bilunatus
Flat-collared Beewolf 21
Philanthus ventilabris
Prosopis 22
Annulate Masked Bee 23
Hylaeus annulatus
Cellophane Bees 24
Colletes
Northern Amber Bumble Bee 25
Bombus borealis
Nevada Bumble Bee 26
Bombus nevadensis
Red-belted Bumble Bee 22
Bombus rufocinctus
Yellowish Cuckoo-Bumble bee 27
Bombus flavidus
Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee 28
Bombus insularis
Great Basin Bumble Bee 29
Bombus centralis
Yellow-Fronted Bumble Bee 30
Bombus flavifrons
Hunt's Bumble Bee 31
Bombus huntii
Black-tailed Bumble Bee 32
Bombus melanopygus
Fuzzy-Horned Bumble Bee 33
Bombus mixtus
Perplexing Bumble Bee 22
Bombus perplexus
Tricolored Bumble Bee 22
Bombus ternarius
Half-black Bumble Bee 34
Bombus vagans
Vancouver Bumble Bee 35
Bombus vancouverensis
Western Bumble Bee 36
Bombus occidentalis
Yellow-banded Bumble Bee 37
Bombus terricola
Cryptic Bumble Bee 35
Bombus cryptarum
Western Honey Bee 38
Apis mellifera
Nomad Bees 22
Nomada
Texas Striped Sweat Bee 39
Agapostemon texanus
Confusing Furrow Bee 22
Halictus confusus
Orange-legged Furrow Bee 35
Halictus rubicundus
Metallic Sweat Bees 40
Dialictus
Lasioglossum 41
Blue Orchard Bee 14
Osmia lignaria
European Woolcarder Bee 42
Anthidium manicatum
Red-footed Cuckoo Leafcutter 43
Coelioxys rufitarsis
Frigid Leafcutter Bee 44
Megachile frigida
Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee 45
Megachile melanophaea
Megachile inermis 22
Melandrena 46
Milwaukee Mining Bee 14
Andrena milwaukeensis

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