Summer Garden Bees of Portland

This guide is based upon collections made in 24 Portland-area gardens, each June, July, and August in 2017-2019. We collected Lasioglossum zephryum (Smith, 1853), but this species is not yet in the iNaturalist database. There are also 12 Lasioglossum, 16 Specodes, and 1 Stelis morphospecies ...more ↓

Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee 1
Megachile rotundata
Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee 1
Agapostemon virescens
Black-tailed Bumble Bee 2
Bombus melanopygus
Black-tipped Miner Bee
Panurginus atriceps
Blue-and-black Mining Bee 3
Andrena nigrocaerulea
Brown-belted Bumble Bee 5
Bombus griseocollis
Confusing Furrow Bee 9
Halictus confusus
European Small-Woolcarder 10
Pseudoanthidium nanum
European Woolcarder Bee 11
Anthidium manicatum
Fog-belt Bumble Bee 12
Bombus caliginosus
Modest Masked Bee 14
Hylaeus modestus
Nevada Bumble Bee 26
Bombus nevadensis
Oblong Woolcarder Bee 27
Anthidium oblongatum
Orange-legged Furrow Bee 28
Halictus rubicundus
Oval-headed Sweat Bee 31
Lasioglossum ovaliceps
Patchwork Leafcutter Bee 25
Megachile centuncularis
Produced Small-Mason 32
Hoplitis producta
Prong-faced Slender-Mason 33
Protosmia rubifloris
Punctate Masked Bee 34
Hylaeus punctatus
Shaggy Furrow Bee
Lasioglossum villosulum
Sigmund's Mining Bee 9
Andrena sigmundi
Small Long-horned Bee 35
Melissodes microstictus
Tansy Mustard Sweat Bee 36
Lasioglossum sisymbrii
Texas Striped Sweat Bee 37
Agapostemon texanus
Tripartite Sweat Bee 38
Halictus tripartitus
Vancouver Bumble Bee 28
Bombus vancouverensis
Western Honey Bee 39
Apis mellifera
Western Leafcutter 40
Megachile perihirta
Western Thistle Longhorn 41
Melissodes rivalis
Wide-striped Sweat Bee 44
Halictus farinosus
Yellow-Fronted Bumble Bee 45
Bombus flavifrons
Yellow-faced Bumble Bee 46
Bombus vosnesenskii
Zephyr Sweat Bee 47
Lasioglossum zephyrus
white-winged sweat bee 17
Lasioglossum albipenne

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