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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) » Mason bees and relatives (Osmiini) » Mason Bees (Osmia) » Subgenus Osmia (Osmia Subgenus Osmia) » Hornfaced Bee (Osmia cornifrons)
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Osmia - Osmia cornifrons - female
Copyright © 2010 prefierobollitos

Osmia - Osmia cornifrons - Female
HighlandParck, Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA
April 20, 2010
It starts nesting in wood holes yesterday, Holes are in a first floor, facing Nord. Yellowish scopa, my guess is one of:
Osmia cornifrons female
Osmia georgica female
Osmia taurus female
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Contributed by prefierobollitos on 22 April, 2010 - 2:50pm
Last updated 16 August, 2010 - 7:45am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Ken Schneider, 17 May, 2010 - 12:58pm login or register to post comments

Osmia cornifrons
female
… John S. Ascher, 22 April, 2010 - 5:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks a lot!
It's a shame that my first bee is not native :)
… prefierobollitos, 23 April, 2010 - 7:38am login or register to post comments

 
I agree
I know what you mean; my bee houses are also full of these non-natives. I don't know what I can do to get native bees in them. I will experiment with different size holes.
(yo tambien prefiero bollitos :-)
… Beatriz Moisset, 7 March, 2011 - 6:29pm login or register to post comments

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