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Ants, wasps, and bees on Wisconsin's Natural Heritage Working List – last revised May 2016. Life history, where they are found in the state, photos and management information is available for many of these species. Please consider sharing your observations [exit DNR] with the Wisconsin Natural Heritage Inventory
| Scientific Name | Common Name | Global Rank |
State Rank |
Federal Status |
WI Status |
WWAP | Mapped in NHI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colletes consors | A Cellophane Bee | G5 | SU | r-SIN | N | ||
| Colletes impunctatus | A Cellophane Bee | G5 | SU | r-SIN | N | ||
| Epeoloides pilosula | A Cuckoo Bee | GU | SH | r-SIN | N | ||
| Epeolus ainsliei | A Cuckoo Bee | GNR | S1 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Hoplitis albifrons | A Leaf-cutter Bee | G5 | SU | r-SIN | N | ||
| Macropis ciliata | A Mellittid Bee | GNR | SH | r-SIN | N | ||
| Lasioglossum bruneri | A Sweat Bee | G5 | SU | r-SIN | N | ||
| Lasioglossum coreopsis | A Sweat Bee | GNR | SU | r-SIN | N | ||
| Lasioglossum paradmirandum | A Sweat Bee | GNR | SU | r-SIN | N | ||
| Lasioglossum swenki | A Sweat Bee | GNR | SU | r-SIN | N | ||
| Bombus pensylvanicus | American Bumble Bee | G3G4 | S1 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Andrena nigrihirta | An Andrenid Bee | G5 | SH | r-SIN | N | ||
| Neolarra vigilans | An Anthophorid Bee | GNR | S1 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Bombus perplexus | Confusing Bumble Bee | G5 | S1 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Bombus frigidus | Frigid Bumble Bee | G5 | S1S2 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Bombus insularis | Indiscriminate Cuckoo Bumble Bee | G3 | S1S2 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Bombus affinis | Rusty Patched Bumble Bee | G2 | S1 | LE | SC/FL | SGCN | Y |
| Bombus sandersoni | Sanderson's Bumble Bee | G5 | S1S3 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Antistrophus silphii | Silphium Terminal Gall Wasp | GNR | S2S3 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Bombus fervidus | Yellow Bumble Bee | G3G4 | S2 | SC/N | SGCN | Y | |
| Bombus terricola | Yellowbanded Bumble Bee | G3G4 | S1 | SOC | SC/N | SGCN | Y |
Rank and status: To learn more about species rank and status, see the working list key. WWAP: (Wisconsin Wildlife Action Plan): SGCN (Species of Greatest Conservation Need) and monitoring and ranking SIN (Species with Information Needs). Mapped in NHI: (Natural Heritage Inventory): Y = Observations of these species are mapped into the NHI database.