Subspecies or Species (and what is this bee doing in Delaware)? Â (Grammar side bar: Â I am guessing that the "?" goes outside the parens? Â Good thing my Mom never reads anything I write giving that she was a teacher). Here we have something that meets the definition of Andrena cressonii subspecies kansensis. Â In my book (rife with grammatical errors) this seems like a species to me, as it appears to consistently having reddish orange legs and more extensive hair bands than its nominate cousin A. c. cressonii which is less hairy and has no red on its legs (and is common as dirt). Â A c. k. is a being of the Midwestern plains (or what is left of them) and I have never seen one in the East until looking at Matt Sarver's collection from Delaware, of all places, where it was collected off of Willow. Â Delaware is admittedly a small state that most people hold no opinion about, but it does have A. c. k. to its name. Â Photo by Elizabeth Panner.
