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North Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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Montana Baja, Canary Islands, Spain
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The bees love the Daviesia angulata flowers.Photos: Fred
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Urbanizacion Callao Salvaje, Canary Islands, Spain
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Morocco
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Ipswich, England, United Kingdom
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Westcliff-on-sea, England, United Kingdom
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Megachile erythropyga femaleI thought I had photos of the same species native bee but on looking at the photos they have different numbers of white stripes on the abdomen. I like the little Hemiptera bug drinking the nectar on one of the flowers.I need to mention that these photos were taken over a period of a number of hours on different populations of these little flowers.
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A welcome visitor to our garden this week. This one is a male. It has a number of sharp points at the the end of its abdomen. Females have a tapered pointed end to their abdomen. "Coelioxys bees are cuckoo bees (or 'cleptoparasites') which lay their eggs inside the nests of other types of bees in a similar way as cuckoo birds lay eggs in the nests of other types of birds. ...The eggs hatch into Coelioxys larvae which kill the leafcutter bee young and also eat the food stored for them."
www.aussiebee.com.au/coelioxys-bee-dec2011.htmlPhoto: Jean
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Cayo Coco, Cuba
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Megachile (Austrochile) rottnestensis> mFred photographed this fellow in Nov 2011.Thanks for the ID Bernhard Jacobi.
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North Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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I thought I had photos of the same species native bee but on looking at the photos they have different numbers of white stripes on the abdomen.
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Stonybrook, Pennsylvania, United States
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El Golfo, Canary Islands, Spain
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Playa Giron, Zapata area , Cuba
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Easton, Pennsylvania, United States
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North Palm Beach, Florida, United States
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A welcome visitor to our garden this week. This one is a male. It has a number of sharp points at the the end of its abdomen. Females have a tapered pointed end to their abdomen. "Coelioxys bees are cuckoo bees (or 'cleptoparasites') which lay their eggs inside the nests of other types of bees in a similar way as cuckoo birds lay eggs in the nests of other types of birds. ...The eggs hatch into Coelioxys larvae which kill the leafcutter bee young and also eat the food stored for them."
www.aussiebee.com.au/coelioxys-bee-dec2011.htmlPhoto: Fred
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Megachile (Austrochile) rottnestensis m Photo: Jean
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Montaa Baja, Islas Canarias, Espaa
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Playa Giron, Zapata area , Cuba
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A welcome visitor to our garden this week. This one is a male. It has a number of sharp points at the the end of its abdomen. Females have a tapered pointed end to their abdomen. "Coelioxys bees are cuckoo bees (or 'cleptoparasites') which lay their eggs inside the nests of other types of bees in a similar way as cuckoo birds lay eggs in the nests of other types of birds. ...The eggs hatch into Coelioxys larvae which kill the leafcutter bee young and also eat the food stored for them."
www.aussiebee.com.au/coelioxys-bee-dec2011.htmlPhoto: Fred