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

Edited by Mindi Summers, Arminty Clarke, Michaela Seal, Sarah Vermaak, and katitran55, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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