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A COLOR GUIDE TO COLORADO

Images by Diane Wilson

Sweat (M) ( confusus arapahonum)

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Metallic Green Bee (F) Metallic Green Bee (F) Metallic Green Bee (Agapostemon coloradinus ( or texanus) (Agapostemon sp.) or virescens)

Green Sweat Bee Green Sweat Bee Green Sweat Bee (Augochlorini tribe) (Augochlorella sp.) (Augochlorini tribe)

Sweat Bee Sweat Bee (M) Sweat Bee (F) (Halictus sp.) ( arapahonum) ()

Sweat Bee (M) () Sweat Bee ( sp.) Bee ( sp.) © Applewood Seed Company 2017 Colorado Bees Halictidae Family: Sweat Bees 3

Sweat Bee (M) Sweat Bee Sweat Bee (Lasioglossum sp.) (Lasioglossum semicaeruleum) (Lasioglossum sp.)

Colletidae Family: Plasterer and Masked Bees —> Cellophane Bee (Colletes sp.) Masked Bee (Hylaeus sp.) Colorado Bees - Family: Leaf-Cutter, Mason Bees and Allies

Wool Carder Bee Wool Carder Bee Resin Bee ( manicatum) (Anthidium oblongatum) (Anthidiellum sp.)

Leaf Cutter Bee (M) Leaf Cutter Bee (F) Leaf Cutter Bee (M) (Megachile sg Chelostomoides) (Megachile parallela) (Megachile sp.)

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Leaf Cutter Bee (F) Leaf Cutter Bee (F) Leaf Cutter Bee (F) (Megachile montivaga) (Megachile sp.) (Megachile perihirta)

Leaf Cutter Bee (F) Leaf Cutter Bee (M) Leaf Cutter Bee (F) (Megachile sg Xanthosarus) (Megachile sg Xanthosarus) (Lithurgus apicalis)

Cuckoo Bee ( sp.) Resin Bee (Dianthidium sp.) (Hoplitis fulgida)

Mason Bee (Hoplitis sp.) Mason Bee (Osmia sp.) Cuckoo Bee ( sp.)

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Honey Bee Small Carpenter Bee (Apis mellifera) (Apis mellifera) (Ceratina sp.)

Small Carpenter Bee Long-Horned Bee (F) Long-Horned Bee (M) (Ceratina sp. (Melissodes sp.) (Melissodes sp.)

Long-Horned Bee (F) Long-Horned Bee (M) Black Long-Horned Bee (M) (Svastra sp.) (Svastra sp.) (Melissodes bimaculata)

Squash Bee Squash Bee Globemallow Bee (Peponapis pruinosa) (Peponapis sp.) (Diadasia sp.)

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Cuckoo Bee Cuckoo Bee Cuckoo Bee ( sp.) (Nomada sp.) (Holcopasites calliopsidis)

Cuckoo Bee Cuckoo Bee Cuckoo Bee (Xeromelecta interrupta) (Triepeolus sp.) (Triepeolus sp.)

Digger Bee Digger Bee Digger Bee (Anthophorini) (Anthophorini) (Anthophorini)

Digger Bee Digger Bee Cactus Bee (Anthophorini) (Anthophorini) (Diadasia sp.)

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Bumble Bee California Bumble Bee Bumble Bee () (Bombus californicus) (Bombus centralis)

Golden Northern Bumble Bee Southern Plains Bumble Bee Brown Belted Bumble Bee () (Bombus fraternus) (Bombus griseocollis)

Cuckoo Bumble Bee Black & Gold Bumble Bee Hunt’s Bumble Bee (Bombus insularis) () (Bombus huntii)

Western Bumble Bee American Bumble Bee Mountain Bumble Bee (Bombus occidentalis) (Bombus pensylvanicus) (Bombus sylvicola)

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Black Mining Bee Mining Bee with red abdomen Mining Bee with red abdomen (Andrena sp. ) (Andrena sp.) (Andrena sp. )

Mining Bee (M) Mining Bee (F) Mining Bee (Andrena sg Callandrena) (Andrena helianthi) (Andrena sg Cnemidandrena)

Mining Bee (F) Mining Bee Mining Bee (Andrena sp.) (Andrena sp.) (Andrena prunorum)

Mining Bee Mining Bee Mining Bee (Pseudopanurgus sp.) (Perdita sp. ) (Perdita sp.)

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