Male resin bee - Megachile exilis? - Megachile

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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 Chelostomoides (Megachile Subgenus Chelostomoides)

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Male resin bee - Megachile exilis? - Megachile -

National Butterfly Center in Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas, USA
September 17, 2018
Size: 10 mm

Is this Megachile exilis? The bee’s forelegs are red and dilated in an unusual & distinctive way. The Discover Life database shows a male M. exilis with a similar foreleg: https://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?search=Megachile+exilis .

This bee has three teeth in each jaw.

This male bee was attempting to mate with a female bee that was busy gathering pollen from a yellow-flowered legume called snout bean. (The Discover Life database notes that M exilis frequent flowers of the family Fabaceae.)

Found in an arid habitat, near the Mexican border.

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Contributed by Jatai on 18 September, 2018 - 2:52pm
Last updated 19 September, 2018 - 12:21am

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