A guide to the identification of the genera of bees in the genus Apidae, part 2.

1. Big Bees – Part 2

7. Peponapis pruinosa– Squash Bee Common – Every squash patch

9. Xenoglossa - 2

11. Apis mellifera

13. Bombus - 20 The only native true colonial bee, some parasitic species (Psythrus)

15. Anthophorula - 2 Small, compact, bushy scopa, very rare

17. Exomalopsis similis Small, very rare, bushy scopa – FL, GA

19. Eucera – 7 Spring Eucerine Uncommon

21. Florilegus condignus Uncommon, Pickerelweed

23. Melissodes – 27 Fall Composites Common

25. Triepeolus – 23 Melissodes parasite

27. Epeolus - 20 Parasite of Colletes Smaller than Triepeolus

29. Svastra – 5 - Monster Eucerines Associated with high quality summer and fall composite fields

31. Tetraloniella - 2 Rare, prairie bees

33. Xeromelecta - 2 – Anthophora Parasite Rare