#eucerini

[cnestus]

everyone please admire this genital dissection i did today while trying to identify this male longhorn bee. i avoided doing these for the longest time but it really is the only way to reliably ID a huge chunk of bee species. i spent like an hour trying to key this guy out using external morphological features but it only took about 10 seconds once i yanked his crazy little hog out and compared it against the big chart of bee dicks. he's a Eucera amsinckiae.

[pisaura-autistica]

hi. long time no bug. check out this girl (eucera?) unable to fly good because shes cold. let her warm up in the sun for a bit and she flew off

[doomple]

I just found out about Squash Bees (Eucerini Peponapis, and Eucerini Xenoglossa) and they are now my new favorite bee

They’re so fuzzy!!

They only pollinate squash and other related plants, thus the name

Friend shaped

[bowelfly]

unequivocally the best thing about having a garden is waking up to a couple good ass squash bees snoozing in a zucchini blossom.

Peponapis pruinosa

[photapir]

SO MUCH POLLEN Is second-from-bottom a Melissodes long-horned bee...? http://bugguide.net/node/view/8019/bgpage The Power Lines, 27 July 2017

[cnestus]

fantroll male eucerine bee

[cnestus]

You'd think for being so large and charismatic that longhorn bees (Eucerini) would be relatively easy to identify to species but that absolutely couldn't be further from the truth. I spent over an hour trying to ID this female longhorn from southern California and while I'm pretty sure she's in the Xenoglossodes/Tetraloniella genus (the two were recently synonymized because eucerine taxonomy is a complete mess) I simply can't put species name for her with the available keys and guides. a real handsome lady whatever she is.

[cnestus]

Svastra sabinensis (Apidae: Eucerini) from NM