Carder Bees

Anthidium

Summary 2

Anthidium is a genus of bees often called carder or potter bees, who use conifer resin, plant hairs, mud, or a mix of them to build nests. They are in the family Megachilidae which is cosmopolitan in distribution and made up of species that are mostly solitary bees with pollen-carrying scopa that are only located on the ventral surface of the abdomen. Other bee families have the pollen-carrying structures on the hind legs. Typically species of...

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  1. (c) Jürgen Mangelsdorf, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/22084572@N07/49158804081/
  2. (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthidium

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