Late Late Bee

October 14. The day after a nor’easter, I went to Rockaway Beach. There were a lot of surfers. And this bee.

There were quite a few of them on Northern Seaside Goldenrod. The only other bee in evidence was the Common Eastern Bumble.

These three, bigger and with shorter antenna, are females of the same species, I think. Beach Dune Cellophane Bee/Colletes speculiferus, I believe. If I’m correct, they aren’t much recorded in NYC. And they make the Colletes genus bees some of the first bees seen in the spring (C. inaequalis) and now some of the last seen in the fall (these C. speculiferus), with the most commonly seen (C. thoracius) seen in May.