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27 Records
Status
A large bee active in spring. Named after the University of Illinois football team by Wally LaBerge, one of the great taxonomy experts that we recently lost. He was a specialist in Andrena and Melissodes and dabbled in several other genera of bees. (S. Droege, pers. comm.)
Relationships
Sam Droege associates this species with blackberry blossoms, but adds that, like others of its group, it probably occurs on a wide variety of woody plants.
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A female Andrena illini collected by Timothy McMahon in Somerset Co., Maryland (4/29/2015). Photographed by Hannah Sutton.
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A female Andrena illini collected by Timothy McMahon in Somerset Co., Maryland (4/29/2015). Photographed by Hannah Sutton.
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A female Andrena illini collected by Timothy McMahon in Somerset Co., Maryland (4/29/2015). Photographed by Hannah Sutton.
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A female Andrena illini in Somerset Co., Maryland (2/19/2013).
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A female Andrena illini in Somerset Co., Maryland (2/19/2013).
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