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Brandeis University - Holometabolous Insects: Beetles, Moths, Flies, Wasps, & others

Flora and fauna of the Brandeis campus and Sachar Woods:
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Bethylidae 1
Ammophila Thread-waisted Wasps 2
Ammophila
Black and Yellow Mud Dauber 3
Sceliphron caementarium
Blue Mud Dauber 4
Chalybion californicum
Gorytes
Tachytes 5
Brown-belted Bumblebee 6
Bombus griseocollis
Two-spotted Bumble Bee 7
Bombus bimaculatus
Common Eastern Bumblebee 8
Bombus impatiens
Honey Bee 9
Apis mellifera
Small Carpenter Bees 10
Ceratina
Eastern Carpenter Bee 11
Xylocopa virginica
Nomad Bees 12
Nomada
Metallic Green Bees 13
Agapostemon
Base-banded Furrow Bees 14
Lasioglossum
Blood Bees 15
Sphecodes
Orange-legged Furrow Bee 16
Halictus rubicundus
European Wool Carder Bee 17
Anthidium manicatum
Leafcutter and Resin Bees 18
Megachile
Dunning's Mining Bee 19
Andrena dunningi
Spider Wasps 20
Pompilidae
Odorous House Ant 21
Tapinoma sessile
Camponotus nearcticus 22
Camponotus americanus 22
Ferruginous Carpenter Ant 23
Camponotus chromaiodes
Black Carpenter Ant 24
Camponotus pennsylvanicus
Formica fusca group 25
Formica pallidefulva group 22
Citronella Ants 26
Lasius subgenus Acanthomyops
Cornfield Ant 20
Lasius neoniger
Small Honey Ant 20
Prenolepis imparis
Nylanderia flavipes 20
Ponera pennsylvanica 22
Stigmatomma pallipes 20
European Fire Ant 20
Myrmica rubra
Stenamma 20
Aphaenogaster fulva 20
Thief Ants 27
Solenopsis molesta
Valentine Ants 28
Crematogaster
Temnothorax curvispinosus 20
Temnothorax longispinosus 20
Tetramorium immigrans 20
Ancistrocerus 15
Euodynerus 29
Eumenes fraternus 30
European Paper Wasp
Polistes dominula
Northern Paper Wasp 31
Polistes fuscatus
European Hornet 32
Vespa crabro
Downy Yellowjacket 33
Vespula flavopilosa
German wasp 20
Vespula germanica
Eastern Yellowjacket 34
Vespula maculifrons

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