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Megachilid on Glycyrrhiza lepidota - Megachile - female

Megachilid on Glycyrrhiza lepidota - Megachile - Female
Sevenmile Creek, 8 km NW of Helena, Lewis and Clark County, Montana, USA
July 3, 2021
Size: 15 mm
Female megachilid on Glycyrrhiza lepidota flowers with yellow-hairy thorax and dorsally shiny black abdomen. Glycyrrhiza lepidota patch in full flower covering ca 75 square meters, in open, sunny grassland habitat with Sisymbrium loeselii, Bromus inermis, and Agropyron cristatum. Sunny day, near noon, calm, 87 F.

Elevation ca 4000 feet. Disturbed, shrubby riparian corridor on stream restoration site within a patchwork of native and non-native grassland.

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