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Colletes aestivalis, m, face, Shenandoah NP, VA
Colletes aestivalis, m, face, Shenandoah NP, VA
Rare. This bee (Colletes aestivalis) is rarely seen these days. I have never collected one despite it being recorded in Maryland in the far distant past. So it was nice to see this specimen from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia collected by Jessica Rykken in her studies of the Park's bee fauna. Good news.
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