Megachilid? waking up - Anthidium manicatum

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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Ants, Bees and Stinging Wasps » Apoidea (clade Anthophila) - Bees » Leafcutter, Mason, and Resin Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, Sharptail, Mason, and Woolcarder bees and relatives (Megachilinae) » Wool-carder, Resin, Pebble, and Allied Bees (Anthidiini) » Woolcarder Bees (Anthidium) » Subgenus Anthidium (Anthidium Subgenus Anthidium) » European Wool-carder Bee (Anthidium manicatum)

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Copyright © 2009 Don Patterson

Megachilid? waking up - Anthidium manicatum -

Stratford, Fairfield County, Connecticut, USA
September 23, 2009
Size: 12-13 mm

Anthidium manicatum? male?

Maybe this behavior is already well-documented in photos. If so, I'll frass this image. New to bee watching, I was surprised to see this small male wool-carder emerging from a carpenter bee's disused nest after a cool night (low = 62 deg. F). He sat just inside the entrance for several minutes until the outside temp reached about 68 or 69 then emerged, pumped his abdomen vigorously for a few seconds (missed my chance for a photo there), and flew off.

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Contributed by Don Patterson on 25 September, 2009 - 12:54pm
Last updated 29 September, 2009 - 1:58pm

Moved

Moved from ID Request.

… Don Patterson, 29 September, 2009 - 1:58pm

Looks like it.

I would agree with your species ID. Do wait to see what Dr. Ascher says, though.

… Eric R. Eaton, 27 September, 2009 - 3:15pm

Thanks for the book, too

Thanks, Eric. By the way, your book, the Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America, is an outstanding field guide. Beautiful images. I just got a copy from Amazon, and it's now the first reference I go to when I need to drill down on a six-legged whatzit.

As to the above photo, your agreement on the ID is definitive as far as I'm concerned. I was pretty sure it's a wool carder when I posted the image; but, since I'm new at this, I don't want to post anything to a genus or species page until an expert like you or an authority like Dr. Ascher has verified its ID. I'm also reasonably convinced this individual is a dude (that jagged bottom margin to his black frontal markings is very unlike the smooth V-shaped margin wool-carder females show; in addition, he appeared to have the male color pattern on his abdominal dorsum when he later came outside and warmed up for flight).

I haven't come across any other photo-documentation of this type of transient nest appropriation, so -- now that the pic has drifted back to page 16 of the ID Request list -- I'll mark it as male and move it to the A. manicatum pages.

… Don Patterson, 29 September, 2009 - 1:39pm

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