Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Any ideas on this bee ?
Posted by LordV on 04-09-2006 08:23
#1
About 10mm body length. Taken 03/09/06 South Coast UK.
Haven't seen this one in my garden before (I think)
Thanks
Brian V.
Posted by cthirion on 04-09-2006 23:09
#3
Undoubtedly but a male! B)
Posted by LordV on 05-09-2006 12:15
#4
Thanks for the id Tony and cthiron :)
Am I correct in thinking Lasioglossum species are also known as sweat bees ?
Brian V.
Posted by Robert Nash on 05-09-2006 13:06
#5
Yes... but the term is more widely applied see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_bee
Lasioglossum is in the family Halictidae which links from this text.
Especially note the image gallery from Gembloux at the end of the overlong Halictidae page.This image rich site is a splendid resource:D:D.
Robert
Edited by Robert Nash on 05-09-2006 13:10
Posted by cthirion on 05-09-2006 23:56
#6
Oh yes, A. PAULY is also a splendid resource! ;)?
?This time is already remote where all young man, 17 years hardly, it came to join me at PEYRESQ in the Alps of Provence, he was already a large entomologist of Gembloux! :D?