bee entering student's house

[mnp1]

A student in one of my classes has bees entering her house - she thinks they are in the ground below some floor boards.

She was hoping for advice on what to do & I was also hoping to get a tentative ID (if possible - I know the picture below is dark).  I'll try to get her to collect one for me with all the metadata.

Mary

[Tracy Snyder]

I am in no way proficient at id’s, but those fuzzy legs look like a Melissodes to me.

 

Tracy

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[Nash Turley]

Possibly thistle specialist Melissodes desponsus, common species, active now, has the brown-colored back legs, just a guess... https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/627202-Melissodes-desponsus

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[Margarita M Lopez-Uribe]

Definitely Melissodes!

Mary: If you can confirm the presence of a nest aggregation, could you please let us know?

Margarita

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