Native Bees of the East Bay

  • All
  • Cuckoo, Digger, Carpenter, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae)
  • Leafcutting, Mason and Cotton Bees (Megachilidae)
  • Membrane Bees (Colletidae)
  • Mining Bees (Andrenidae)
  • Sweat Bees (Halictidae)
Anthophora-bomboides-1

American Bumble-bee Digger Bee

Megachile_apicalis_1

Apical Leafcutter Bee

Ceratina_arizonensis_1

Arizona Small Carpenter

Diadasia_bituberculata_1

Bindweed Turret Bee

Bombus-melanopygus-1

Black-Tailed Bumble Bee

Photo courtesy of iNaturalist

Blue Orchard Bee

Andrena_nigrocaerulea_1

Blue-and-black Mining Bee

Bombus_californicus_1

California Bumble Bee

Anthophora_californica_1

California Digger Bee

Photo courtesy of iNaturalist

California Longhorn-Cuckoo Bee

Habropoda_depressa_1

California Mountain-Digger Bee

Andrena_cerasifolii_1

Cherry Plum Mining Bee

Osmia_coloradensis_1

Colorado Mason

Hylaeus_rudbeckiae_1

Coneflower Masked Bee

Bombus_crotchii_1

Crotch’s Bumble Bee

Megachile_davidsoni_1

Davidson’s Resin Bee

Habropoda_tristissima_1

Dimorphic Mountain-digger Bee

Photo courtesy of iNaturalist

Edwards’s Digger Bee

Coelioxys_octodentatus_1

Eight-toothed Cuckoo Leaf-cutter Bee

Eucera_lunata_1

Eucera lunata

Megachile_mendica_1

Flat-tailed Leafcutter Bee

Bombus_fervidus_1

Golden Northern Bumble Bee

Andrena_auricoma_1

Golden-haired Miner Bee

Hoplitis_fulgida_1

Green Small-Mason

Megachile_fidelis_1

Horn-faced Leafcutter Bee

Xylocopa_tabaniformis_1

Horse-fly Carpenter

Lasioglossum_titusi_1

Lasioglossum titusi

Halictus_ligatus_1

Ligated Furrow Bee

Megachile_angelarum_1

Los Angeles Resin Bee

Andrena_miserabilis_1

Miserable Mining Bee

Eucera_frater_albopilosa_1

Monk Longhorn

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Nomada sp.

Halictus_rubicundus_1

Orange-legged Furrow Bee

Anthophora_terminalis_1

Orange-tipped Wood-digger Bee

Ceratina_pacifica_1

Pacific Coast Small Carpenter

Anthophora_pacifica_1

Pacific Digger Bee

Hoplitis_fulgida_ssp_platyura_1

Pacific Green Small-Mason

Megachile_parallela_1

Parallel Leafcutter Bee

Andrena_piperi_1

Piper’s Miner Bee

Peponapis_pruinosa_1

Pruinose Squash Bee

Bombus_rufocinctus_1

Red-belted Bumble Bee

Coelioxys_rufitarsis_1

Red-footed Sharptail

Anthophora_curta_1

Short Sun-digger Bee

Megachile_montivaga_1

Silver-tailed Petalcutter Bee

Colletes-slevini-1

Slevin’s Cellophane Bee

Anthidium_maculosum_1

Spotted Woolcarder

Diadasia_enavata_1

Sunflower Chimney Bee

Lasioglossum_sisymbrii_1

Tansymustard Sweat Bee

Agapostemon_texanus_1

Texas Striped Sweat Bee

Ceratina-nanula-1

Tiny Small Carpenter

Halictus_tripartitus_1

Tripartite Sweat Bee

Anthophora-urbana-1

Urbane Digger Bee

Xylocopa_sonorina_1

Valley Carpenter Bee

Bombus_vandykei_1

Van Dyke’s Bumble Bee

Osmia_lignaria_ssp_propiniqua_1

Western Blue Orchard Bee

Xylocopa_californica_1

Western Carpenter

Closeup on a worker honeybee, Apis mellifera,  collecting nectar from a purple flower of  knapwood , Centaurea cyanus

Western Honey Bee

Megachile_perihirta_1

Western Leafcutter Bee

Svastra_obliqua_expurgata_1

Western Oblique Longhorn

Hoplitis_albifrons_1

White-fronted Small-Mason

Eucera_frater_albopilosa_1

White-haired Monk Longhorn

Halictus_farinosus_1

Wide-striped Sweat Bee

Bombus_vosnesenskii_1

Yellow-faced Bumble Bee

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