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 ↓

Hawthorn Mining Bee

Andrena crataegi is a species in the family Andrenidae ("mining bees"), in the order Hymenoptera ("ants, bees, wasps and sawflies"). The species is known generally as the "hawthorn andrena". It is found in North America.

Blue-and-black Mining Bee

Andrena nigrocaerulea, the blue-and-black andrena, is a species of mining bee in the family Andrenidae. It is found in North America.

Edited by Gail Langellotto, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND)