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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) » Leafcutter, Resin, Mortar, and Sharptail bees (Megachilini) » Leafcutter and Resin Bees (Megachile) » Subgenus Sayapis (Megachile Subgenus Sayapis) » Megachile fidelis
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Yellow-banded Leafcutter Bee? - Megachile fidelis - female
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Yellow-banded Leafcutter Bee? - Megachile fidelis - Female
Tenino, Thurston County, Washington, USA
August 28, 2017
Size: 10mm
Brilliant yellow-banded abdomen on this very skittish leafcutter(?) bee. Appears to use bee boards but has strange habit of entering multiple holes and staying in the holes for very long periods of time. One image shows an extraction it made from a hole, looks like a bit of leaf. Only seen on douglas aster despite a great variety of forage flowers available.

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Yellow-banded Leafcutter Bee? - Megachile fidelis - female Leafcutter bee with yellow bands on abdomen - Megachile fidelis - female Yellow-banded Leafcutter Bee? - Megachile fidelis - female
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Contributed by olynatureguy on 28 August, 2017 - 1:49pm
Last updated 28 August, 2017 - 7:09pm

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