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Nocturnal bee nest

Megalopta genalis

Photo by Juan DiTrani
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

Megalopta bees are primitively social Halictid bees, nesting in twigs on the understory of rain forest. Bees burrow tunnels on the twigs and then construct cells with the sawdust for the inmatures.

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PublishedNovember 16, 2011

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