Osmia (Mason Bees)
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Osmia lignaria
(Blue Orchard Bee)
(Blue Orchard Bee)
25 Mar 2025
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Caught after it entered a hole in the spruce stump.
9 mm
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
(Mason Bees)
21 Jun 2024
On a lupine flower
Associated Species:
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
21 Jun 2024
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On Phacelia heterophylla flowers.
These beautiful bees absolutely love this plant. Whenever the weather is nice, several of these bees are visiting these flowers.
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
(Mason Bees)
19 Jun 2024
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On Phacelia heterophylla flowers
Associated Species: Phacelia heterophylla (Virgate Scorpionweed)
Osmia sp.
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
Subgenus Melanosmia
(Mason Bees)
18 Jun 2024
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On Phacelia heterophyla flowers.
Osmia lignaria
(Blue Orchard Bee)
(Blue Orchard Bee)
27 Mar 2022
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It looks like he has a load of mites around his waist.
Osmia lignaria propinqua
(Blue Orchard Bee)
(Blue Orchard Bee)
1 May 2019
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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
(Blue Orchard Bee)
(Blue Orchard Bee)
5 Apr 2019
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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.
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
(Mason Bees)
25 May 2018
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Captured after entering hole in stump. Cooled, photographed, and released.
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
(Mason Bees)
22 May 2018
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Cutting a piece of a leaf off of a Douglas Hawthorne
Osmia sp.
(Mason Bees)
(Mason Bees)
18 Jul 2016
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Associated Species: Trifolium repens (White Clover)
Species
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