Bees & Ants
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Apidae:                 Xylocopa virginica
on Opuntia compressa flower
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
June 13, 2006
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Apidae:                 Bombus impatiens
on Musk Thistle with beetle (Typocerus velutinus)
East Pond, Catoctin Mountains
Frederick County, Maryland
July 8, 2006
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Halitidae:             Augochlorella aurata
on Pluchea flower with an American Copper Butterfly
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
July 31, 2005
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Halitidae:             Genus undetermined
on Rabbitfoot Clover
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
June 16, 2006
Photographer:  ZoAnn Lapinsky                                           Trailscapes Photography
Megachilidae:    Megachile xylocopoides (male)
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
June 12, 2006
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Formicidae:         Lasius (Acanthomyops) interjectus
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
May 4, 2006
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Formicidae:         Lasius umbratus
Attending their Conifer Root Aphids (Prociphilus sp.)
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
April 2, 2007
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Formicidae:         Monomorium minimum
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
April 2, 2007
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Apidae:                 Apis mellifera                                             Honey Bee
Beltsville Agricultural Research Center
Prince Gorge's County, Maryland
April 19, 2007
Photographer:  Richard Orr   
Formicidae:         Dorymyrmex bureni
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
April 2, 2007
Photographer:  Daniel Khar
Formicidae:        Crematogaster laeviuscula
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
June 6, 2007
Photographer:  ZoAnn Lapinsky                                 Trailscapes Photography
Megachilidae:     Megachile sculpturalis
Assateague Island National Seashore
Worchester County, Maryland
June 11, 2007
Photographer:  ZoAnn Lapinsky                                           Trailscapes Photography
Halitidae              Augochlora pura
on Goldenrod at FBI Pond
Frederick County, Maryland
August 30, 2007
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Halitidae              Augochlora pura
Catoctin Mountains
Frederick county, Maryland
August 18, 2006
Photographer:  Richard Orr
Halitidae              Lasioglossum tegulare
Jackson Lane (TNC Property)
Caroline County, Maryland
April 19, 2006
Formicidae:        Tapinoma sessile                           Odorous House Ant
Columbia Environs
Howard County, Maryland
July 20, 2008
Photographer:  Richard Orr