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Mining Bee

Family Andrenidae

Photo by Randy Burns
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Species ID Suggestions

Mining bee

Andrenidae

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Comments (4)
Randy Burns
Thanks for thr info, still learning and researching
kenglou.hung
It is difficult to discern from this camera angle but it seems that this is a bee with a facial fovea. If that is true, this would be an Andrenid bee--perhaps in the genus Andrena.
Juan DiTrani
Hi Randy. There's not such a thing as Common bees. There´s Common honney bees, but this is not one of them.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2012

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