Megachile sp.
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
(Sharptail Bees)
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Megachile sp.
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Associated Species: Ocimum basilicum (Sweet Basil)
Megachile sp.
Subgenus Xanthosarus
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys
(Sharptail Bees)
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Heriades sp.
Subgenus Neotrypetes
(Armored-Resin Bees)
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Heriades sp.
Subgenus Neotrypetes
(Armored-Resin Bees)
On common yarrow flowers
Associated Species: Achillea millefolium (Common Yarrow)
Megachile sp.
Subgenus Xanthosarus
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
On oregano flowers
Associated Species: Origanum vulgare (Oregano)
Megachile sp.
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Visiting common lavender flowers
Associated Species: Lavandula angustifolia (Common Lavender)
Hoplitis sp.
(Small Mason Bees)
On Phacelia heterophylla flowers.
These beautiful bees absolutely love this plant. Whenever the weather is nice, several of these bees are visiting these flowers.
Associated Species: Phacelia heterophylla (Virgate Scorpionweed)
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
21 Jun 2024
On a lupine flower
Associated Species:
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
On Phacelia heterophylla flowers
Associated Species: Phacelia heterophylla (Virgate Scorpionweed)
Osmiini
On
Phacelia heterophyla flowers.
Associated Species: Phacelia heterophylla (Virgate Scorpionweed)
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
Megachile pugnata
(Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee)
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
Anthidium manicatum
(European Woolcarder Bee)
Hoplitis sp.
Subgenus Alcidamea
(Small Mason Bees)
Osmia lignaria
(Mason Bees)
Megachile angelarum
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys
(Sharptail Bees)
Megachile sp.
Subgenus Xanthosarus
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
Osmia lignaria
(Mason Bees)
It looks like he has a load of mites around his waist.
Megachile sp.
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Cephalosmia
(Mason Bees)
On spruce stump
Osmia montana
(Mason Bees)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Closing up nest with resin in bee hotel.
Seems to be using resin.
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Seems to be using resin to close nest in bee hotel
Anthidium manicatum propinqua
(European Woolcarder Bee)
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
(Sharptail Bees)
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Hanging out on a bee hotel
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
On spruce stump
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Caught leaving hole in spruce stump
12 mm
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys
(Sharptail Bees)
Caught leaving hole in spruce stump
11 mm
Anthidium manicatum propinqua
(European Woolcarder Bee)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Dianthidium sp.
Subgenus Dianthidium
(Pebble Bees)
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Anthidium manicatum propinqua
(European Woolcarder Bee)
Coelioxys sp.
Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys
(Sharptail Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys
(Sharptail Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys
(Sharptail Bees)
Anthidium manicatum propinqua
(European Woolcarder Bee)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
First bee in bee hotel.
Seems to have started 6 adjacent nests, with an end plug in each. Spent the night in the middle of one of the holes with her head facing the plug.
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Megachile sp.
Subgenus Chelostomoides
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Exited a 7 mm diameter drilled hole in spruce stump.
He poked his head out for a few minutes, then went back in for a few more. Then he came out, walked around a bit, and flew away.
Megachile sp.
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Megachile sp.
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys
(Sharptail Bees)
Coelioxys sp.
Subgenus Cyrtocoelioxys
(Sharptail Bees)
Lurking at the bee hotel
Hoplitis albifrons propinqua
(White-fronted Small-Mason)
Inspecting a drilled hole in a spruce stump
Megachile rotundata propinqua
(Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee)
Megachile angelarum propinqua
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Caught leaving drilled hole in spruce stump.
Length 10 mm
Heriades sp.
Subgenus Neotrypetes
(Armored-Resin Bees)
Caught leaving small beetle(?) hole in spruce stump. Length 6 mm
Megachile pugnata propinqua
(Pugnacious Leafcutter Bee)
Caught leaving drilled hole in spruce stump. Length 17 mm
Hoplitis sp.
Subgenus Alcidamea
(Small Mason Bees)
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
Hoplitis sp.
Subgenus Alcidamea
(Small Mason Bees)
10 mm
Captured leaving hole in a log
Megachile melanophaea propinqua
(Black-and-gray Leafcutter Bee)
Hoplitis sp.
Subgenus Alcidamea
(Small Mason Bees)
5 mm
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
Captured after entering hole in stump. Cooled, photographed, and released.
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
4 mm
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
Cutting a piece of a leaf off of a Douglas Hawthorne
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Megachile sp.
Subgenus Xanthosarus
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Associated Species: Lavandula angustifolia (Common Lavender)
Hoplitis sp.
(Small Mason Bees)
Megachile sp.
Subgenus Xanthosarus
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)
Anthidium manicatum propinqua
(European Woolcarder Bee)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Mason Bees)
Anthidium manicatum propinqua
(European Woolcarder Bee)
Anthidium manicatum propinqua
(European Woolcarder Bee)
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
Associated Species: Trifolium repens (White Clover)
Megachile sp.
Subgenus Xanthosarus
(Leafcutter, Mortar, and Resin Bees)