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Photo Contest Winner | June 2021 | Honorable Mention
USGS Natiave Bee Lab, Magicicada cassinii, super rare Blue eyed variant

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

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.

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.

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 tiny wasp. Perhaps one of the most spectacular of the eucoiline wasps out there, species of Acantheucoela are native to South America.

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 function, but it may have to do with nest invasions, either digging or gripping the walls of the nest. Lovely metallic blue / purple colors.