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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Leaf-cutter bees, Mason Bees, and allies (Megachilidae) » Megachilinae » Megachilini » Leaf-cutting and Resin Bees (Megachile) » Subgenus Eutricharaea (Megachile Subgenus Eutricharaea)
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Leaf-cutting Bee - Female Megachile? - Megachile - female
Copyright © 2006 Lloyd and Sandy Spitalnik

Leaf-cutting Bee - Female Megachile? - Megachile - Female
Central Park, New York County, New York, USA
September 17, 2006
Can Id be confirmed? Species possible? Thanks in advance, Sandy

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Leaf-cutting Bee - Female Megachile? - Megachile - female Leaf-cutting Bee - Megachile - Megachile - female
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Contributed by Lloyd and Sandy Spitalnik on 29 September, 2006 - 1:18pm
Last updated 13 November, 2009 - 12:20am

Moved
Moved from Leaf-cutting and Resin Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 11 November, 2009 - 12:17am login or register to post comments

Megachile (Eutricharaea)
definitely not mendica

I think it is M. concinna (vertex appears narrow, unlike rotundata)
… John S. Ascher, 11 November, 2009 - 12:16am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Megachile mendica.
… Lloyd and Sandy Spitalnik, 2 December, 2006 - 12:52pm login or register to post comments

I'm not sure of the species ID
perhaps it is better to call this Megachile sp.
… John S. Ascher, 1 December, 2006 - 9:10pm login or register to post comments

very likely Megachile mendica
a common bee in Central Park; but would be hard to prove this from the photo alone; female; compare with my M. mendica photos as www.discoverlife.org
… John S. Ascher, 29 September, 2006 - 6:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Megachile
Thanks for the ID help! Beautiful pics on the blue aster on www.discoverlife.org We do see many of these bees in CP - but so far no page exists on BugGuide for this species. Sandy
… Lloyd and Sandy Spitalnik, 29 September, 2006 - 11:10pm login or register to post comments

 
how big was this bee?
If rather large (about honey bee size) then likely M. mendica, if clearly much smaller could perhaps be M. (Eutricharaea)
… John S. Ascher, 30 September, 2006 - 1:26pm login or register to post comments

 
Bee
This bee was noticeably larger than the common stockier leaf-cutting bees near it. Honeybee size seems right. I'll submit a pic of the other species it was hanging out with for comparison,(on Mist Flower). Sandy
Also, this bee vigorously pumped its abdomen up and down.
… Lloyd and Sandy Spitalnik, 30 September, 2006 - 3:44pm login or register to post comments

 
size sounds right
for M. mendica
… John S. Ascher, 30 September, 2006 - 4:29pm login or register to post comments

 
Megachile sp.
Added a second image with better detail. This is the best we can do for this one. Hope it helps! Sandy
… Lloyd and Sandy Spitalnik, 4 October, 2006 - 10:46am login or register to post comments

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