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Eastern Chimney Bee (Anthophora abrupta) females at work. June 2021, Berks Co. PA

March 17, 2022

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Bumble Bee ID Links - Pictorial Key to the Bumblebees of Minnesota

I just got this Bumblebee Key for Minnesota by the Minnesota Bumblebee Survey which Heather Holm put up on Facebook in the PollinatorsNativePlants group. It covers most of the species which live in PA. (it is missing Bombus pennsylvanicus and B. terricola. ) and has a few which are not in PA such as B. borealis, B. rufocinctus and B. huntii) Here is the Key to the Pictorial to Female Bumblebees of Minnesota (here is the direct link to get the pdf of for rev. 1 of the pictorial key to Female Bumblebees of Minnesota .) Here is the Key to the Pictorial to Male Bumblebees of Minnesota (here is the direct link to get the pdf of for rev. 1 of the Key to Male Bumblebees of Minnesota .

Chimney Bee Rescue, June 2021 interim progress. The relocated bees are flying!

The first of the relocated Eastern Chimney Bees (a.k.a. Abrupt Digger bees) ( Anthophora abrupta ) were seen flying on June 7, 2021 when I went to check on them at one of my relocation sites at Rock Hollow Woods Environmental Learning Center (RHW) . This is a major milestone in my project to rescue a portion of the breeding agregation that was in the path of the I-78 bridge construction near Hamburg, PA! I was interviewed by The Bee Report about the bee rescue project and here is the link My 1st Blog Post about the rescue is here. A Slide show about the rescue with my thankyous and references is here . A podcast of my interview about the rescue on "The Bee Report" is here . They had apparently started emerging just after my previous visit to the site and had been out and flying for several days as there were new tunnels and chimneys in the works! The dark color of the wet soil used showed the new workings very easily. According to Beth Norden's paper this species doe

Bee ID Links

Discover Life Bee Genera Key Andrena ID and what to look for By David Cappaert Ceratina ID From OSU Some Lasioglossm ID From OSU from Rob Jean's workshop for their Bee Survey Apoidea Bees of Maryland (Flickr) Bees of the UK by Stephen Falk (Flickr) Some Keys to bee lookalike insects From the Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification Syrphidae (Flowerflies) -Neartic Genera Wasps (Vespidae)

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Eastern Chimney Bee (Anthophora abrupta) females at work. June 2021, Berks Co. PA

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