Plasterer Bees
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Description
Without many distinctive features; typically medium-sized and dark-bodied with white, yellow, or orange hairs
Species
Family:
ColletidaeGenus:
ColletesSpecies:
manyNative to Florida?
YesSize
medium
3-6 mm very small - small bees, i.e., sweat bees
7-10 mm medium bodied bees, i.e., honey bees
11+ mm- large bodied bees, i.e., carpenter and bumblebees
7-10 mm medium bodied bees, i.e., honey bees
11+ mm- large bodied bees, i.e., carpenter and bumblebees
Nesting
ground
Behavior
Foraging Period
spring or fallSociality
solitaryKnown For
Also known as cellophane bees - they produce a cellophane -like substance with which they line their nest cells
