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Old 08-07-2008, 08:50 AM
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Re: Help needed with Bee ID
This is a female leaf-cutter bee (Megachile) and could be M. willughbiella. It is in the same sub-family of bees as Osmia (ie the Megachilini), typified by the pollen collecting apparatus, the scopa, being on the underside of the abdomen of the female
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