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A solitary bee (Melissodes spp, Apidae) foraging on a daisy (Asteraceae). Zach's front yard, Okemos, MI. August 24, 2002. A solitary bee (Melissodes spp, Apidae) foraging on a daisy (Asteraceae)....
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A solitary bee (Melissodes spp, Apidae) foraging on black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta, Asteraceae). Zach's back yard, Okemos, MI. August 24, 2002. A solitary bee (Melissodes spp, Apidae) foraging on...
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A sphecid wasp (Sphecidae) foraging on hydrangea flowers (Hydrangea, Hydrangeaceae). MSU Tollgate Center, Novi, MI. During a Lilly Teaching Fellows retreat. August 17, 2002. A sphecid wasp (Sphecidae)...
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A carpenter bee (Xylocopa spp, Apidae) foraging on hydrangea flowers (Hydrangea, Hydrangeaceae). These bees are easily confused with the bumble bees, but the abdomen is shiny and hairless, whereas...
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A carpenter bee (Xylocopa spp, Apidae) foraging on hydrangea flowers (Hydrangea, Hydrangeaceae). These bees are easily confused with the bumble bees, but the abdomen is shiny and hairless, whereas...
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A leaf cutter bee (Anthidium manicatum, Megachilidae) foraging on lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina, Lamiaceae). MSU Tollgate Center, Novi, MI. August 17, 2002 A leaf cutter bee (Anthidium manicatum,...
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A leaf cutter bee (Anthidium manicatum, Megachilidae) foraging on lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina, Lamiaceae). MSU Tollgate Center, Novi, MI. August 17, 2002 A leaf cutter bee (Anthidium manicatum,...
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A leaf cutter bee (Anthidium manicatum, Megachilidae) foraging on lamb's ear (Stachys byzantina, Lamiaceae). This is a European species that has apparently been introduced into the western Hemisphere,...
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A cuckoo wasp (Chrysura spp) foraging on mountain mint flowers. Zach's home garden, Michigan, USA. A cuckoo wasp (Chrysura spp) foraging on mountain mint flowers. Zach's home garden, Michigan, USA.
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A sweat bee (Halictidae, Agapostemon spp) foraging. Outside Butterfly House, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Nov. 2002 A sweat bee (Halictidae, Agapostemon spp) foraging. Outside Butterfly House, Fort...
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A sweat bee (Halictidae, Agapostemon spp) foraging. Outside Butterfly House, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Nov. 2002 A sweat bee (Halictidae, Agapostemon spp) foraging. Outside Butterfly House, Fort...
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A sweat bee (Halictidae, Agapostemon spp) foraging. Outside Butterfly House, Fort Lauderdale, FL. Nov. 2002 A sweat bee (Halictidae, Agapostemon spp) foraging. Outside Butterfly House, Fort...
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A yellowjacket (Vespula spp) stealing juice from an apple I was eating. Yellowjackets nest underground and can be very agressive. Most people stung by 'bees' around picnic tables are actually stung by...
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A yellowjacket (Vespula spp) stealing honey from honey cells. Yellowjackets nest underground and can be very agressive. Most people stung be 'bees' around picnic tables are actually stung by them....
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A yellowjacket (Vespa spp, Vespidae) foraging on mountain mint. A yellowjacket (Vespa spp, Vespidae) foraging on mountain mint.
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A solitary bee (most probably in the family Megachilidae) foraging on an aster. Zach's home garden, Michigan, USA. A solitary bee (most probably in the family Megachilidae) foraging on an aster....
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Someone left a broken frame out in Sept and bees and wasps are robbing honey from the comb. Amazingly there is some aggression, but not much between the wasps and bees, probably because this comb was...
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Bees or wasps? From left to right: A yellowjacket, a European paperwasp, a honey bee, and a bumble bee queen. Bees or wasps? From left to right: A yellowjacket, a European paperwasp, a honey bee, and...
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A bumble bee (Bombus terrestris, a species not found in North America) in flight while foraging on a mint. In the back garden of the "Residez" of the Bishop, Wuerzburg, Germany. Sept 11 (!), 2004. A...
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Two bumble bees foraging on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia, Asteraceae). MSU Beal Botanical Garden, Sept 16, 2004. Two bumble bees foraging on a Mexican sunflower (Tithonia rotundifolia,...
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