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  1. Life
  2. Animals
  3. Arthropods
  4. Insects
  5. Hymenopterans
  6. Sweat Bees
  7. Sphecodina
  8. Blood Bees

genus

Blood Bees

Sphecodes

Includes
11 native 1 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Sphecodes ranunculi 3 native
  • Sphecodes dichrous 2 native
  • Sphecodes confertus 1 native
  • White-lipped Blood Bee
  • Davis's Cuckoo Sweat Bee presumed native
  • Sphecodes brachycephalus presumed native
  • Sickle-jawed Blood Bee
  • Johnson's Sphecodes presumed native
  • Crowned Cuckoo Sweat Bee
  • Illinois Cuckoo Sweat Bee presumed native
  • Sphecodes smilacinae
  • Sphecodes antennariae
  • Sphecodes fattigi
  • Nimble Cuckoo Sweat Bee
  • Atlantic Cuckoo Sweat Bee
  • Sphecodes townesi
  • Cresson's Cuckoo Sweat Bee
  • Autumn Cuckoo Sweat Bee
  • Capped Cuckoo Sweat Bee
  • Crowned Blood Bee
  • Sphecodes mandibularis

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

Most observed native blood bees All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Cyclops Blood Bee Sphecodes heraclei 117 observations
  • Buttercup Blood Bee Sphecodes ranunculi 86 observations

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