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Halictus
I believe this is a sweat bee. It was tiny--about 8mm. It had the same black and white body as my other sweat bee spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/122..., but was much smaller. Any help with an ID would be great.
Mustard green blossoms in an urban house vegetable garden.
The genus Halictus is a large assemblage of bee species in the family Halictidae. The genus is divided into 15 subgenera, containing well over 300 species, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere (a few species occur in South America and Africa). Most species are black or dark brown, sometimes metallic greenish-tinted, with apical whitish abdominal bands (the related genus Lasioglossum, which is otherwise often similar in appearance, has the abdominal hair bands located basally, not apically). Wikipedia
Spotted on Aug 3, 2012
Submitted on Aug 4, 2012
2 Comments
Thank you Juan. How can you tell it is male?
This is a male bee, probably from Halictus genus