Wood-carving Leafcutter Bee

Megachile ligniseca

TQ4892 22/08/2019 ©Mike Rumble 

A large summer-flying solitary bee that nests mainly in deadwood often utilising holes in fence posts. Their nests are built with pieces of leaf that they cut away from plants. Leaves are carried into the nest to build cells in which their larvae live. This particular bee was building a home in a crack on a picnic table.

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