Discover Life BC centric Bee key links plus bonus Male Bombus Web Archive link

Currently Discoverlife, in attempt to block robots, is asking for individual IP addresses to provide access to their site :(

Just a little BC centric helper page for keying on Discover Life for PNW Bees. and at the end of the page is a link to the Web Archive pages of the now defunct Bombus Male ID pages that were at nhm.ac.uk. 

I find the site sometimes a little of a bear to wrestle when I'm trying to find keys - sometimes the more specific ones are hidden under layers. For the Keys chosen that say female, just change the URL to male as in https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Andrena_female  change to https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?guide=Andrena_male - pretty straight forward. 

Some of these keys are incomplete so know there are limitations. Be grateful if it keys out and not surprised if it doesn't but I usually take a few runs at it anyways as my morphological acumen is not always spot on. When I am selecting place (see note for Megachile below), if I am identifying something from south of 48, I will add Washington and/or Idaho and/or Montana depending on where I was north of. If I'm east of the Rockies up in Peace River or Northern Rockies I might add Alberta to the mix.

• Agapostemon - no Agapostemon subtilior 

• Andrena (female) - interesting is that Andrena astragali  is removed from the key when BC is selected but not if Washington is selected.

• Anthidium (female)

• Anthophora (female)

• Ashmeadiella (female)

• Bombus

• Ceratina (female)

• Chelostoma (female)

• Coelioxys (female)

• Colletes (female)

• Diadasia

• Dianthidium (female) 

• Epeolus (female)

• Eucera (Great Basin)

• Habropoda

• Halictus (female)

• Heriades

• Hoplitis (female) Unlike most pages this will fill out after you select province/state and then search

• Hylaeus (female)

• Lasioglossum

• Lasioglossum Dialictus (female)

• Macropis

• Megachile (female)  Note do not chose BC to narrow search as it will weirdly only give you one species.

• Melissodes (female) 6 of the 10 2018 BC list Melissodes are not covered in this key

• Nomada (female)

• Osmia (female)(temp)

• Panurginus

• Perdita (female)

• Sphecodes (female)

• Stelis

• Trachusa (female)

• Triepeolus (female) Limited. Only one of the three 2018 BC listed species are in this key, But two of the since added through iNaturalist species (by Thomas Onuferko, tonuferko) are on the key but one other added by Thomas is not. Thomas has had keys for both Triepeolus and Epeolus published.

  Web archive of BumblebeeID Find world species by male genitalia https://web.archive.org/web/20250420222248/https://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/bombus/genitalia.html

  Expect these to be slow loading. I can almost hear the modem buzzing on the other end. 

  I'm slowly working on saving a local copy of the images - Pyrobombus is done