On Tue, Jul 12, 2022 at 10:44 AM Dean Hansen via olympus <
olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Joel posted a photo of what I'm taking as a leaf-cutter bee, family
> Megachilidae. These bees pack their pollen on the underside of their
> abdomen, in sharp contrast to more familiar bees, who pack pollen as
> "baskets" on their hind legs. One can see the edge of this mass of
> collected pollen as a yellow stripe on the right margin of the bee's
> abdomen. See: <
>
> https://www.planetbee.org/planet-bee-blog//native-bee-series-leafcutting-bees
> >.
> Unofficial OM List entomologist Dean
>
Thanks Dean. Nice to hear from you! I appreciate the identification.
Joel W.
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