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Ground nesting bees - Diadasia bituberculata
Copyright © 2018 Alice Abela

Ground nesting bees - Diadasia bituberculata
Santa Barbara County, California, USA
July 4, 2018
Size: ~1.5cm
100s of these bees were nesting together in the middle of a hard packed dirt trail through mixed scrub, chaparral, and grassland habitat

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Contributed by Alice Abela on 4 July, 2018 - 9:26pm
Last updated 5 July, 2018 - 5:49am

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Moved from Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees.
… John S. Ascher, 5 July, 2018 - 5:49am

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