Leafcutter? Leaves wings open when moving on flowers - Megachile

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Leafcutter? Leaves wings open when moving on flowers - Megachile -

Taylorsville, Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
July 27, 2022

As this bee species would move around on the flowers it would leave its wings open. The other leafcutters folded theirs.

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Leafcutter? Leaves wings open when moving on flowers - Megachile - male

Contributed by Carol Davis on 27 July, 2022 - 5:07pm
Last updated 7 August, 2022 - 2:59am

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