Slender Resin Bee Megachile exilis Cresson, 1872    Synonyms: Megachile exilis parexilis.
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Hymenoptera   >   Family Megachilidae   >   Genus Megachile   

Description:

Nests are categorized as existing cavities, and social behavior is categorized as solitary to communal (Selfridge et al., 2017).

There are 22 records in the project database.

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A male Slender Resin Bee collected in Talbot Co., Maryland (3/16/2016). Photography by Wayne Boo. Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A male Slender Resin Bee collected in Talbot Co., Maryland (3/16/2016). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A male Slender Resin Bee collected in Talbot Co., Maryland (3/16/2016). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

Slender Resin Bee in Montgomery Co., Maryland (6/30/2022). (c) Jane Hartman, all rights reserved. Photo by Jane Hartman. (MBP list)

A female Slender Resin Bee in Talbot Co., Maryland (7/14/2015). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A female Slender Resin Bee in Talbot Co., Maryland (7/14/2015). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A female Slender Resin Bee in Talbot Co., Maryland (7/14/2015). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)


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