Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Any ideas on this bee ?

Posted by LordV on 04-09-2006 07:23
#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.

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Posted by Tony Irwin on 04-09-2006 20:26
#2
How about Lasioglossum calceatum? See
http://liboupat2....ioglo.html

Posted by cthirion on 04-09-2006 22:09
#3
Undoubtedly but a male! Cool

Posted by LordV on 05-09-2006 11:15
#4
Thanks for the id Tony and cthiron Smile
Am I correct in thinking Lasioglossum species are also known as sweat bees ?
Brian V.

Posted by Robert Nash on 05-09-2006 12:06
#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 resourceGrinGrin.

Robert
Edited by Robert Nash on 05-09-2006 12:10

Posted by cthirion on 05-09-2006 22:56
#6
Oh yes, A. PAULY is also a splendid resource! Wink?

?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! Grin?