Files By Usgs Bee Inventory And Monitoring Laboratory

Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge, SC Public domain scan of zoological print or book illustration, zoology, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

This is picture 1 from a 12 picture series by Matt Buffington at the USDA Parastitic Hymentoptera group at the Smithsonian. Matt's group uses a system very similar to ours to photograph and stack this super tin More

Anthidium manicatum, unknown, back_2012-07-12-16.19.05 ZS PMax

Collected in the deserts of Cochise County in Arizona as part of the famous Bee Course there by Tim McMahon, these speedy little bees are found throughout much of North America. At this moment these are cons More

Anthidium manicatum, unknown, face_2012-07-12-16.31.47 ZS PMax

Connecticut, Tracy Zarillo Collector

From Yellowstone National Park comes the powerful Bombus insularis, and this parasite of other bumblebees is one bad ass bee. collected as part of a high elevation study of the Alpine areas throughout the Unit More

The female of the already portrayed male Calliopsis edwardsii from Yosemite National Park and collected for a project done by Lauren Ponisio examining the effect of fire diversity on bees (Ponisio et al. Global More

Photographed using a Canon 5D MarkII using they system described here: ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf This is a parasitic Chal More

Ladybird pupa, White Oak leaf, Beltsville, Maryland, August 2012, determination by speech path girl

Ladybird pupa, White Oak leaf, Beltsville, Maryland, August 2012, determination by speech path girl

Lindernia dubia, false pimpernel, one of numerous low growing flowering plants that feed the many tiny bees that live out there, that we don't pay any attention to. Specimen and photo by Helen Lowe Metzman. More

The Mystery of the Cicada Evil Eye. (This title reminds me of one of the endless mystery books I took out of the library during the summer when I was tweening, do such things still exist?) Don't take our word More

I like looking at this shot, the symmetry, this alien being, this unknowable insect, there is something alive, even relatable here. This one is worth looking at full-screen. What if, indeed, this Megachile brev More

A populous genus with many South American species, check out the ultra wide head of this male from Argentina. From the Packer Lab collection. 13:54, 17 November 2014 (UTC)13:54, 17 November 201 More

Varroa destructor, the leading cause of beekeeper angst. This relatively large mite parasitizes honeybees from adults to larvae. Crab-like aren't they? Specimen provided by Krisztina Christmon from the Unive More

Head of a Calliphora vicina, face view. The face of insect form, layout, and ratios. Have to download and print to really see the details on this bad boy. Found near the Mall in downtown D.C. Canon Mark II More

Giant Flying Eye - The male of Xylocopa virginica or Virginia Carpenter Bee. Any bee with this much "eye" is clearly doing something different visually. In this case the males are guarding nesting territories More

Anthodioctes calcaratus. A small bee from La Cruz, Costa Rica. Collected by Tim Mcmahon on one of his several bee trips to that country. I can't scrounge up much about these hole nesters from Central and South More

This bee was collected as part of a survey of Rocky Mountain National Park. The size of a bumblebee, but has all those cream colored markings on its face that Bumblebees never have. A male in this case. Photog More

Pupae of Agrotis ipsilon - Black Cutworm - A major crop pest. This species moves into northern parts of North America after overwintering in Texas and Mexico and then pulls off a couple of generations in wee More

Caupolicana electa is a bee of the early morning. Matrinal. Restricted to the southeastern United States deep sand spots where it feeds only in the early morning hours. Very uncommonly recorded now but this More

Collops bipunctatus, Melyridae family, Malachiinae subfamily, taken from flowers in Badlands National Park, South Dakota.

Diphaglossa gayi, family Colletidae. A large to huge, long-faced bee from Chile. The only member of its genus and strongly associated with the residual and now relictual beech forests of this country. Photogr More

Spodoptera eridania - Southern armyworm. A pest in southern parts of the U.S. mostly Florida. Defoliator of tomatoes and other crops. Specimens provided by Benzon Research 15:42, 3 February 2015 (UTC). All ph More

Anticarsia gemmatalis - Velvetbean Caterpillar - This species can't overwinter in most of North America but moves north to populate bean and legume fields in large enough numbers to become a major pest, but lik More

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Number 2 in our new series on bee ID....Agapostemon Males

Bees Learn to Drive Very Small Cars. [April Fools' Day] Scientists capitalized on recent revelations that bees are a lot smarter than previously thought. In addition to being able to count and solve simple pu More

Unknown Beetle. Found on Andelot Farms in Kent County. I am not sure what genus this is. Seems like Acmaeodera, but it doesn't match and of the region's species I know.  ???? Captured in June. Photographed More

New Lense set up! This is my first stack from a new lens set up that I learned from Johan Ingles-Le Nobel's lovely Extreme Macro layout. The simple version is that I have attached a 10x Nikon microscope obje More

Bees Learn to Drive Very Small Cars. Scientists capitalized on recent revelations that bees are a lot smarter than previously thought. In addition to being able to count and solve simple puzzles USGS scientis More

Bees Learn to Drive Very Small Cars. Scientists capitalized on recent revelations that bees are a lot smarter than previously thought. In addition to being able to count and solve simple puzzles USGS scientis More

Here lie the birds killed while striking a set of buildings surveyed during the migration season in 2013 in Washington D.C. The birds were picked up by the group Lights Out Washington D.C. and include species More

Español: Abeja (Melissodes comptoides)

Catching up, again, with our backlog of pictures. Here is one of the most common Andrena species in the mid-Atlantic. Andrena cressonii. Photographed by Dejen Mengis. Photography Information: Canon Mark II 5D More

Bee tool, from a monster cleptoparasite, endemic to South America. Note the lovely expanded tibial spurs. I do not know their function, but it may have to do with nest invasions of Centris, either digging or More

Monster cleptoparasite, this dramatic species is a nest parasite of bees in the genus Centris and is endemic to South America. Note the one shot of the lovely expanded tibial spurs. I do not know their funct More

The red maple, Acer rubrum, often one of the most dominant trees in deciduous woods in the East. It blooms very early in the spring and provides pollen and nectar to the set of bees, and flower flies, that come More

The red maple, Acer rubrum, often one of the most dominant trees in deciduous woods in the East. It blooms very early in the spring and provides pollen and nectar to the set of bees, and flower flies, that come More

The red maple, Acer rubrum, often one of the most dominant trees in deciduous woods in the East. It blooms very early in the spring and provides pollen and nectar to the set of bees, and flower flies, that come More

The red maple, Acer rubrum, often one of the most dominant trees in deciduous woods in the East. It blooms very early in the spring and provides pollen and nectar to the set of bees, and flower flies, that come More

The red maple, Acer rubrum, often one of the most dominant trees in deciduous woods in the East. It blooms very early in the spring and provides pollen and nectar to the set of bees, and flower flies, that come More

Monster cleptoparasite, this dramatic species is a nest parasite of bees in the genus Centris and is endemic to South America. Note the one shot of the lovely expanded tibial spurs. I do not know their funct More

The red maple, Acer rubrum, often one of the most dominant trees in deciduous woods in the East. It blooms very early in the spring and provides pollen and nectar to the set of bees, and flower flies, that come More

Yarrow. Native. Not Native. There is more to this plant than you think. It is native throughout the northern hemisphere, but as one might suppose there are molecular differences among those locations. Here, More

This is picture 1 from a 12 picture series by Matt Buffington at the USDA Parastitic Hymentoptera group at the Smithsonian. Matt's group uses a system very similar to ours to photograph and stack this super tin More

Beetles from Kruger National Park in South Africa. This is the start of a series of pictures of insects that come to the flowers in Kruger. This is a project led by James Harrison from S.A. and Jonathan Mawds More

Yarrow. Native. Not Native. There is more to this plant than you think. It is native throughout the northern hemisphere, but as one might suppose there are molecular differences among those locations. Here, More

Actaea racemosa, Black Cohosh, Howard County, MD 2017-08-09-16.14

Yarrow. Native. Not Native. There is more to this plant than you think. It is native throughout the northern hemisphere, but as one might suppose there are molecular differences among those locations. Here, More

Another tree flower loving beetle from South Africa this one a buprestid, Acmaeodera virgo. Collected widely in bowl traps and in trees in Kruger National Park. Photo by Kelly Graninger. 12:59, More

Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra. Buckeye's...one of the nice little acknowledged providers of pollen and nectar in forested environments. Specimen and photos by Helen Lowe Metzman. 10:54, 25 De More

Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra. Buckeye's...one of the nice little acknowledged providers of pollen and nectar in forested environments. Specimen and photos by Helen Lowe Metzman. 10:56, 25 De More

Lovely wasp from Kruger National Park. Again, not being a wasp person, I don't know the species. The group may be the sand wasp (Bembicini) . Photos by Anders Croft. 12:58, 24 December 2018 (U More

Lovely wasp from Kruger National Park. Again, not being a wasp person, I don't know the species. The group may be the sand wasp (Bembicini) . Photos by Anders Croft. 12:58, 24 December 2018 (U More

Ohio Buckeye. Aesculus glabra. Nice open understory tree you see more towards the west in Maryland and the Eastern U.S. Attracts a variety of woodland loving bees...in particular Augochlora pura. A nice c More

Pennington County, South Dakota, Badlands National Park

Pennington County, South Dakota, Badlands National Park

Acmaeodera ornata.

Agapostemon angelicus, male, Pennington County, South Dakota, Badlands National Park

Agapostemon coloradinus, female, Pennington County, South Dakota, Badlands National Park

A series of pictures from Silas Bossert from the National Collection at the Smithsonian. They use their own hi res camera equipment, but prefer a light background. Here we have Afromelecta lieftincki, a nest More

A large bright green with blue overtones Agapostemon from Badlands National Park. One of several species present there and very similar to A. virescens and a bit tricky to tell apart. Photo by Wayne Boo with More

A large bright green with blue overtones Agapostemon from Badlands National Park. One of several species present there and very similar to A. virescens and a bit tricky to tell apart. Photo by Wayne Boo with More

Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra. Buckeye's...one of the nice little acknowledged providers of pollen and nectar in forested environments. Specimen and photos by Helen Lowe Metzman. 10:51, 25 De More

Gliding in from Costa Rica comes a moderalely large, moderately green bee. An Agapostemon nasutus. There are a lot of the these bright green bees out there...Not just in C.R. but throughout the Americas. Bea More

Agapostemon splendens, female, Florida, October 2011, Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Pennington County, South Dakota, Badlands National Park

This male was captured in the Great Basin National Monument, Nevada as part of a survey of bees in high elevations vulnerable to climate change. Photo taken by Colby Francouer. Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacke More

Yet another Agapostemon, this one was collected in the southern remote portions of Badlands National Park in South Dakota within the Pineridge Indian Reservation Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, 65mm Canon MP More

Male Agapostemon's almost all have this same pattern, Metallicy green on the head and thorax and then striped yellow and black on the abdomen. Females uniformly don't have yellow anywhere. Why is good questi More

Dominican Republic, The only described all black Agapostemon in the Caribbean is from Cuba. (A. obscuratus). Collected in November of 2012. This is either A. obscuratus and a new record for Hispaniola or a More

Agapostemon femoratus. Check this bee out! Anyone with an eye can tell how it got is name, This male was captured in the Great Basin National Monument, Nevada as part of a survey of bees in high elevations v More

Another bee associated with deep sandy soils. This one also found in a study sand pit reclamation in Anne Arundel County in Maryland. Amazing to think that such metallic green bees are all around us having do More

The least common of the Eastern Agapostemon bee species. It shows up regularly, but almost always in ones and twos rather in the numbers seen by at least A. virescens and in sandy areas A. splendens. Collecte More

Gliding in from Costa Rica comes a moderalely large, moderately green bee. An Agapostemon nasutus. There are a lot of the these bright green bees out there...Not just in C.R. but throughout the Americas. Bea More

Agapostemon splendens, female, Florida, October 2011, Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve

Male Agapostemon's almost all have this same pattern, Metallicy green on the head and thorax and then striped yellow and black on the abdomen. Females uniformly don't have yellow anywhere. Why is good questi More

Dominican Republic, The only described all black Agapostemon in the Caribbean is from Cuba. (A. obscuratus). Collected in November of 2012. This is either A. obscuratus and a new record for Hispaniola or a More

Agapostemon virescens, F, face, Kings County, New York_2013-02-01-15.01.02 ZS PMax

Another bee associated with deep sandy soils. This one also found in a study sand pit reclamation in Anne Arundel County in Maryland. Amazing to think that such metallic green bees are all around us having do More

More Green Bees. This is a common one, one of the commonest summer bees in the East. Agapostemon virescens. The females have a black abdomen unlike the other female Agapostemons in the East which are bright More

East of the Mississippi River there are 4 species of Agapostemons. The largest of the metallic green Sweat Bees. In some places they can be extremely abundant. This species, however, is never abundant, but e More

Yet another Agapostemon, this one was collected in the southern remote portions of Badlands National Park in South Dakota within the Pineridge Indian Reservation Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, 65mm Canon MP More

Lovely wasp from Kruger National Park. Again, not being a wasp person, I don't know the species. The group may be the sand wasp (Bembicini) . Photos by Anders Croft. 12:58, 24 December 2018 (U More

Agapostemon virescens, F, back, Kings County, New York_2013-02-01-14.52.52 ZS PMax

Male Agapostemon's almost all have this same pattern, Metallicy green on the head and thorax and then striped yellow and black on the abdomen. Females uniformly don't have yellow anywhere. Why is good questi More

More Green Bees. This is a common one, one of the commonest summer bees in the East. Agapostemon virescens. The females have a black abdomen unlike the other female Agapostemons in the East which are bright More

Gliding in from Costa Rica comes a moderalely large, moderately green bee. An Agapostemon nasutus. There are a lot of the these bright green bees out there...Not just in C.R. but throughout the Americas. Bea More

A large bright green with blue overtones Agapostemon from Badlands National Park. One of several species present there and very similar to A. virescens and a bit tricky to tell apart. Photo by Wayne Boo with More

This Agapostemon species is one of the most common native bees in the East. In almost any field there can be hundreds if not thousands of these bees visiting a wide variety of blooming plants. One of the larg More

The least common of the Eastern Agapostemon bee species. It shows up regularly, but almost always in ones and twos rather in the numbers seen by at least A. virescens and in sandy areas A. splendens. Collecte More

More Green Bees. This is a common one, one of the commonest summer bees in the East. Agapostemon virescens. The females have a black abdomen unlike the other female Agapostemons in the East which are bright More

Are any mints not attractive to bees? Probably, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Here, is a great one, Agastache foeniculum, Anise Hyssop (aka Blue Giant Hyssop). Particularly loved up by bum More

Dominican Republic, The only described all black Agapostemon in the Caribbean is from Cuba. (A. obscuratus). Collected in November of 2012. This is either A. obscuratus and a new record for Hispaniola or a More

Are any mints not attractive to bees? Probably, but I can't think of any off the top of my head. Here, is a great one, Agastache foeniculum, Anise Hyssop (aka Blue Giant Hyssop). Particularly loved up by bum More

White Snakeroot, Ageratina altissima. Collected and Photographed by Helen Lowe Metzman. 23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC)23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC) More

White Snakeroot, Ageratina altissima. Collected and Photographed by Helen Lowe Metzman. 23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC)23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC) More

White Snakeroot, Ageratina altissima. Collected and Photographed by Helen Lowe Metzman. 23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC)23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}23:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC) More