Anthidium manicatum (European wool carder bee)♀︎♂︎

Lotus corniculatus (Bird's-foot trefoil)

Last update: 30 November 2019


Uncommon

LOCATION: Krimpen aan den IJssel, garden

OBSERVATION:
2014-VI-28


A female European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) foraging on Bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) got jumped by a male to copulate.

European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) on Bird’s-foot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), copulating

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