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Wool carder bee; Abeja cortadora de hojas
Anthidium florentinum
40.7137, -4.24415
Field Notes
Description:
Megachilidae bee, very robust and covered with small hair. Ca. 2 cm in size. Probably it is a mail due to the white hairs on the side of the abdomen.
It is a great flowers pollinator. This bee was hovering all the time around a lavender flowered plant, clearly in a territorial attitude, chasing away others bees approaching.
Females make the nests covering the inside with chewed plant fibers.
Habitat:
Spotted in house garden on a lavender flowered plant.
Notes:
Camera Model: NIKON D500. Exposure Time: 1/500 sec.; f/11; ISO Speed Rating: 800. Exposure Bias: 0 EV. Focal Length: 300.0 mm. No flash fired. DSC_4671,76, 80, 68
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PublishedMarch 10, 2020
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