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Bryan Danforth

Bryan Danforth

Professor of Entomology at Cornell University specializing in bee systematics, evolution, and conservation

Jul 6, 2026

3:37
Can you describe the primary bees? I know there's multiple bees that were nesting in this site, but what was the primary species, and what, what do we know about its biology?
3:46
Uh, yeah.
3:46
The, the main bee nesting at this site is Andrena regularis, although there are Colletes inequalis nesting in the same cemetery, and there's other Andrena nesting there.
3:57
Uh, but regularis is the most, the most abundant, uh, in the, in the area of the cemetery we studied.
4:03
And, um, this is a, a, a, a pretty large Andrena.
4:07
It's in the subgenus Melandrena, so it's a big black and yellow bee.
4:10
Beautiful, fluffy bee.

14 MINS LATER

18:20
Okay.

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