Location Krimpen aan den IJssel, garden Observations 2020-VI-172020-VI-132019-VIII-312019-VIII-30
Last changes: Added observation 2020
A female Willughby’s Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella) [1] foraging for pollen on Broad-leaved sweet pea (Lathyrus latifolius).
This rather large bee is not a frequent visitor on this plant and seemed only to appear after the Chalicodoma ericetorum bees stopped visiting the plant. Possibly I have missed this species among the C. ericetorum bees that always swarm the plant in large numbers.