Bee collections and images from New York and Michigan States
I enjoy spending summer days outside collecting and photographing bees. I did this in the Ithaca area in 2011 and 2012, but I was not the first. The area around Ithaca, New York, has been extensively collected for native bees since the 19th century. A great deal of material is stored at the Cornell University Insect Collection. I was involved in curating the bee collection at Cornell and digitizing specimen records as part of a collaborative project led by Dr. John Ascher of the American Museum of Natural History (now at the National University of Singapore).
From my collections in 2011 and 2012 and in combination with ongoing studies in New York State apple orchards with colleagues at Cornell, we recorded the following 162 species (subdivided by bee family) within the boundaries of Tompkins County. Six families of bee occur in Tompkins County: Andrenidae, Apidae, Colletidae, Halictidae, Melittidae, and Megachilidae. Based on historical material collected in the county, and collections from adjacent counties, there are many more bees that should occur in the Ithaca area. The majority of the specimens from my collections were deposited in the CUIC.
In 2013, I came to work at Michigan State University. I am now collecting and photographing bees on weekends in Ingham County, Michigan. There are some additional species that I have seen here and they are listed below as well. Specimens from my Michigan collections are stored in my personal collection, but duplicates will bee deposited at the A. J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection at MSU. The bee list for Ingham County is more than 225 species!
ANDRENIDAE
Andrena alleghaniensis
Andrena arabis
Andrena barbilabris
Andrena bisalicis
Andrena brevipalpis
Andrena carlini
Andrena commoda
Andrena crataegi
Andrena cressonii
Andrena distans
Andrena dunningi
Andrena erigeniae [Ingham Co., MI]
Andrena erythronii
Andrena forbesii
Andrena fragilis
Andrena frigida [Ingham Co., MI]
Andrena gardineri [Van Buren Co., MI]
Andrena geranii
Andrena heraclei [Allegan Co., MI]
Andrena hippotes
Andrena imitatrix
Andrena integra
Andrena mandibularis
Andrena milwaukeensis
Andrena miserabilis
Andrena nasonii
Andrena perplexa
Andrena persimulata
Andrena pruni
Andrena regularis
Andrena robertsonii
Andrena rufosignata
Andrena rugosa
Andrena vicina
Andrena wilkella
Andrena w-scripta
Andrena ziziae
Calliopsis andreniformis
APIDAE [back to top]
Anthohora bomboides [Ingham Co., MI]
Anthophora terminalis
Bombus auricomus [Ingham Co., MI]
Bombus bimaculatus
Bombus impatiens
Bombus perplexus
Bombus sandersoni
Bombus ternarius
Bombus vagans [Ingham Co., MI]
Ceratina calcarata
Ceratina dupla
Ceratina mikmaqi
Ceratina strenua
Epeolus bifasciatus
Epeolus lectoides [Berrien & Clinton Cos., MI]
Epeolus scutellaris
Holcopasite calliopsidis
Melissodes bimaculatus [Ingham Co., MI]
Melissodes denticulatus [Ingham Co., MI]
Melissodes illatus
Melissodes subillatus
Nomada articulata
Nomada cressonii
Nomada denticulata
Nomada depressa
Nomada imbricata
Nomada luteoloides
Nomada maculata
Nomada obliterata
Nomada pygmaea
Nomada sayi
Nomada vicina
Peponapis pruinosa
Triepeolus donatus
Triepeolus pectoralis
Triepeolus remigatus
Xylocopa virginica
COLLETIDAE [back to top]
Colletes americanus [Leelanau Co., MI]
Colletes compactus [Leelanau Co., MI]
Colletes inaequalis
Colletes latitarsis
Colletes nudus [Clinton Co., MI]
Colletes simulans
Colletes thoracicus [Ingham & Muskegon Cos., MI]
Hylaeus affinis
Hylaeus annulatus
Hylaeus hyalinatus
Hylaeus leptocephalus
Hylaeus modestus
HALICTIDAE [back to top]
Agapostemon virescens
Augochlora pura
Augochlorella aurata
Augochloropsis metallica
Dieunomia heteropoda [Allegan Co., MI]
Dufourea monardae
Halictus confusus
Halictus ligatus
Halictus rubicundus
Lasioglossum abanci
Lasioglossum cinctipes
Lasioglossum coeruleum
Lasioglossum coriaceum
Lasioglossum ellisiae
Lasioglossum ephialtum
Lasioglossum foxii
Lasioglossum hitchensi
Lasioglossum laevissimum
Lasioglossum leucozonium
Lasioglossum lineatulum
Lasioglossum lustrans [Van Buren Co., MI]
Lasioglossum macoupinense
Lasioglossum michiganense
Lasioglossum nelumbonis [Van Buren Co., MI]
Lasioglossum nigroviride
Lasioglossum obscurum
Lasioglossum oenotherae
Lasioglossum pectorale
Lasioglossum quebecense
Lasioglossum tegulare
Lasioglossum truncatum
Lasioglossum versans
Lasioglossum versatum
Lasioglossum viridatum
Lasioglossum weemsi
Lasioglossum zephyrum
Lasioglossum zonulum
Sphecodes banksi [MI]
Sphecodes clematidis
Sphecodes confertus
Sphecodes davisii
Sphecodes dichrous
Sphecodes fattigi [MI]
Sphecodes galerus
Sphecodes heraclei
Sphecodes illinoensis [MI]
Sphecodes levis
Sphecodes mandibularis
Sphecodes minor [MI]
Sphecodes ranunculi [MI]
Sphecodes townesi [MI]
MELITTIDAE [back to top]
Melitta eickworti
MEGACHILIDAE [back to top]
Anthidiellum notatum
Chelostoma campanularum
Chelostoma philadelphi
Coelioxys alternatus
Coelioxys modestus
Coelioxys moestus
Coelioxys rufitarsis
Heriades carinata
Hoplitis producta
Hoplitis spoliata
Megachile apicalis [Ingham Co., MI]
Megachile campanulae
Megachile centuncularis
Megachile frigida
Megachile gemula
Megachile inermis
Megachile latimanus
Megachile melanophaea
Megachile mendica
Megachile mucida [Ingham Co., MI]
Megachile sculpturalis
Megachile texana
Osmia albiventris
Osmia atriventris
Osmia bucephala
Osmia caerulescens
Osmia cornifrons
Osmia distincta
Osmia lignaria
Osmia pumila
Osmia texana
Osmia virga [Muskegon Co., MI]
Stelis louisae