A Pictorial Guide to Bees
of the
Humboldt Bay Dunes
by Susan E. Nyoka
Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge
RELEASE 1.0 - July 2004
of the
Humboldt Bay Dunes
by Susan E. Nyoka
Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge
RELEASE 1.0 - July 2004
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A Pictorial Guide to Bees
of the Humboldt Bay Dunes by Susan E. Nyoka Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge RELEASE 1.0 - July 2004 |
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Home How to Recognize a Bee
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Common Name: Honey bee Scientific Name: Apis mellifera  Recognition characters: Mid-sized (12-15 mm), with an elongate body; thorax with tan/gray pile, abdomen with alternating black and tan or honey-colored bands; females carry pollen in corbiculae, shiny concave areas on the outer hind leg, fringed by long stiff hairs.
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Preferred flowers: Most abundant on the dominant flowering plant of the season.  beach buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium)  European sea rocket (Cakile maritima)  dune goldenrod (Solidago spathulata ssp. spathulata) |
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