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Category: My Garden Birds | Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:37 pm

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Here is a Resin Bee. Good for the flowers and much smaller than the honey bees etc.Neat pattern and the black and white is a nice change from all the black and yellow ones that we have.


Resin Bee. ( photo / image / picture from Kildale's Garden )






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eileen wrote on Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:46 pm:

What a attractive creature the resin bee is with it's monochrome markings. Do you know why it is called a resin bee by any chnce?

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Kildale wrote on Sun Aug 09, 2009 5:56 pm:

I do, This is a megachilid bee. They are among the "resin bees" that construct little cells of sand or pebbles, held together with plant resins and attached to twigs, or beneath rocks, etc.

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eileen wrote on Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:32 pm:

Thanks Kildale. I like to know where the names derive from. I'd love to see them constructing those cells.

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lulu1107 wrote on Sun Aug 09, 2009 6:55 pm:

What an exquisite shot! You definitely have a gift for photography! The markings on this bee are beautiful and striking. Thanks for sharing this.

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