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Photo by JoeyBamburg
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Field Notes

Description:

Metallic blue-green wasp like fly

Notes:

Very small. About the size of a house fly.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (3)
bayucca
Hmm, wasp looks somehow better than my bees... OK, take this as a hint ;-)... http://bugguide.net/node/view/35096/bgpage
bayucca
Sweat Bee, Halicitidae, Augochloropsis metallica?? http://bugguide.net/node/view/363587/bgpage I have no IDeas about bees, but take it as a hint.
TKBotting
It looks like a cuckoo wasp. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo_wasp
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PublishedAugust 25, 2012

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