Plaster Bees

This image captures a female Colletes inaequalis or Plaster Bee a few moments before a male bee arrived to mate. This species exhibits sexual size dimorphism with the female being larger.
At a nesting site in Catasauqua, PA a female bee emerges from her finely mined tunnel.
At a nesting site in Catasauqua, PA a female bee emerges from her finely mined tunnel.
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