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 that could not be named to species level.

Specimens were collected by Gail Langellotto, Isabella Messer, Lucas Costner, Angelee Calder. Lincoln Best made final determinations on all bees. Other bee identifications were made by Jason Gibbs' lab (Lasioglossum / Dialictus), Gabriel Foote (2019 bee IDs), and Sarah Kornbluth (2017 bee IDs).

Funding for this project was provided by a donation to the OSU Garden Ecology Lab by Y. Sherry Sheng and Spike Wadsworth. less ↑