Groups of small black beelike insects darting around above Anthophora aggregations
In the last couple of days, there have been large groups of small, black bees or wasps darting around above a couple of areas of Anthophora aggregation. They'd occasionally duck into a small hole or a large Anthophora hole, but always seemed to come out very fast. (This is besides than the Nomada and Sphecodes poking around, and the Anthophora females coming and going.) They had some SERIOUS mandibles going on.
They were fast and hard to photograph, but with fast shutter speed and a LOT of discarded shots, I got some that are conceivably identifiable. A few of the better ones are linked here.
Looks like ONE submarginal cell?! (Frustratingly, it isn't working to link this one in and have the photo show up below, so you just have to click the link.)
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74809752
A couple more with wing veins visible:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74809750
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74809749
One that shows the crazy mandibles:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74809711
Just a nice overall view:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/74809748