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Leafcutter bees on squash blossom. Genus Megachile? Megachile rotundata? - Peponapis
Copyright © 2007 Scott T. Smith

Leafcutter bees on squash blossom. Genus Megachile? Megachile rotundata? - Peponapis
Cache County, Utah, USA
July 16, 2007

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Leafcutter bees on squash blossom. Genus Megachile? Megachile rotundata? - Peponapis Leafcutter bees on squash blossom. Genus Megachile? Megachile rotundata? - Peponapis Leafcutter bees on squash blossom. Genus Megachile? Megachile rotundata? - Peponapis
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Contributed by Scott T. Smith on 16 July, 2007 - 3:40pm
Last updated 6 August, 2007 - 9:59pm

Peponapis
very likely Peponapis pruinosa

not Megachile!
… John S. Ascher, 17 July, 2007 - 12:03pm login or register to post comments

 
thanks
Peponapsis seems right to me. Thanks all for the correction.
… Scott T. Smith, 17 July, 2007 - 1:18pm login or register to post comments

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