Black Resin Bee Flying | Black Resin Bee Face | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta) | ||||
Order: | Ant Bee Wasps (Hymenoptera) | ||||
Family: | Leafcutter Bee (Bee: Megachilidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Black Resin Bee (Megachile atrella) | ||||
This Photo: | Wing Venation | ||||
Thank you Dr Ken Walker for identifying this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere If you are keen to support the local native bee population, you can easily build a Bee Hotel. Different sized holes attracts different bee species. They're cheap and easy to build from scrap. They last longer left under cover. The best one I've seen is here: www.bowerbird.org.au/observations/26118 | |||||
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