Tag: longhorn bee

• Dark-veined and Agile longhorn bees (Melissodes trinodis/agilis)

  Apidae > Melissodes > Melissodes trinodis / Melissodes agilis If you grow sunflowers in your backyard garden, you won’t have to go very far to find one of this pair of longhorn bees Melissodes trinodis and Melissodes agilis. Separating this species pair in the field is difficult (especially males), and both members have a strong…

  Bee Watching

  January 13, 2023

  Backyard Bees, Melissodes, Species Page, Summer Bees

  backyard bee, chap-legged bee, longhorn bee, Melissodes, Melissodes agilis, Melissodes trinodis, summer, sunflowers

• Drury’s longhorn bee (Melissodes druriellus)

  Apidae > Melissodes > Melissodes druriellus Drury’s longhorn bee (Melissodes druriellus) is yet another player in the marvelous theater of goldenrods and asters. Females have a distinctive “banded” thorax created by a cinnamon stripe on the apical half. Look for these bees in August and September, but you’ll have to be fast to catch a…

  Bee Watching

  January 9, 2023

  Fall Bees, Melissodes, Specialists, Species Page

  asters, chap-legged bee, fall, forest, goldenrods, longhorn bee, meadow, Melissodes, Melissodes druriellus