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Sweat bee

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Field Notes

Notes:

Do not know if it's a wasp or bee.
Once a year 1 to 2 are always subject to the same plant (lavender).
Your body is more like a sighting, but its compartments is certainly like bees.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (8)
bayucca
Yes, it looks really sweet, but it should be sweat. I do this "mis-reading" all the time as well ;-)...
bayucca
Pablo, all these bees look almost identical. I think it might not be possible to get down to genus/species level without a real expert.
Leuba Ridgway
Very nice, Pablo. The yellow pollen and blue look great together !
PabloPlus
Bayucca Displaying the links, the more similar it is certainly the "Temnosoma metallicum" The others look very green. But it could be because of the photo itself. If they are in Argentina and Brazil, not unlikely that they were here. Some time (maybe 1 or 2 months ago), in the Discovery Channel website, a photo appeared on these bees (and other). He said he lived in sandy areas near California (USA) and fed on the flowers growing on the edges of these sands.
bayucca
This is most probably a Sweat Bee from the family Halictidae. Maybe Halictinae and Augochlorini?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halictidae Just an example, not the species! http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=482438 http://www.yorku.ca/bugsrus/bee_genera_of_the_world/Augochlora_pura_Female.jpg

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PublishedMarch 11, 2014

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