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Andrena illini, F, face, Maryland, Somerset County
Andrena illini, F, face, Maryland, Somerset County
Andrena Illini. Named after the University of Illinois football team by Wally LaBerge. While he was one of the great taxonomy experts that we recently lost. He was a specialist in Andrena and Melissodes and dabbled in several other genera of bees. This particular B is a large one in the spring one, I associated with blackberry blossoms, but like others of its group it probably occurs on a wide variety of woody plants.
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