Apr 4, 2019
Cellophane Bees (Colletes inaequalis)
Southeastern Pennsylvania
April 3, 2019
Taking a chance on the ID. At first I just thought that there were a lot of ant hills in the magnolia grove I was in, but then I saw low flying bees, and some of the ”ant hills” had little bee faces peeking out of them. There were a lot of these nests, but each one only contains one bee. (I’m glad no one is ever in this arboretum to see me lying on the ground stalking bees.)