A bee I found buzzing around some local roses. To my (admittedly untrained) eye, it seems similar to the
Anthidium manicatum shown in
. (The differences to me being the depth of ridges on the abdomen and the yellow stripe pattern.) In the comments there, Eric states that there are lots of western Anthidium species; perhaps this is one?
Contributed by
Tom Shermer on 3 August, 2006 - 9:49pm
Last updated 10 November, 2009 - 6:11pm