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Ceratina smaragdula
Ceratina smaragdula (Fabricius, 1787), of family Apidae, subfamily Xylocopinae, tribe Ceratinini, subgenus Pithitis. This is a small green carpenter bee, about 9-10mm in size, aptly called Dwarf Carpenter Bee.
Backyard garden, spotted on a Yellow Alder flower.
I've mistakenly IDd this before as a Halictid Bee. Reference: http://www.flickr.com/photos/54563451@N0... http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/Si... http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bit... http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/docum... http://beesind.com/beesind2/ceratina.htm... http://www.flickr.com/photos/15583580@N0...
Spotted on May 13, 2013
Submitted on Jul 13, 2013
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I've mistakenly IDd this before as a green Halictid Bee, but I finally found a matching image, and it turned out to be a green Dwarf Carpenter Bee. My other spotting was corrected by Juan DiTrani as a Megachild Bee (Leafcutter Bee), and I was comparing my spotting with the Andrenid Bee (Mining Bee) before Juan's correction. I'm still confuse, but I'm glad I got two corrected IDs of these wonderful busy bees. :)