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Sphecodes sp.
About 10 millimeters in body length, colored black with a red abdomen. (Males have a bicolored abdomen, red and black).
This bee was visiting flowers of a lone, blooming saltcedar tree (Tamarix sp.) in a vast open field of degraded shortgrass prairie with sunflower, yucca, prickly-pear cacti, and scattered elm trees.
Sphecodes are parasitic in the nests of other halictid bees.
Spotted on Jun 20, 2012
Submitted on Jan 20, 2014
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