Bee hotel

Megachile centuncularis (Patchwork leafcutter bee)♀︎

Last update: 23 December 2019


Common

LOCATION: Krimpen aan den IJssel, garden

OBSERVATION:
2019-VIII-16


A female Patchwork leafcutter bee ( Megachile centuncularis ) inspects a nest location in the bee hotel.

These bees are mainly interested in the higher positioned nest blocks in section I,  and to lesser extend in section IV that mainly seemed to be used by the females as a sleeping place.

Patchwork leafcutter bee ♀︎ (Megachile centuncularis)

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