Small-handed Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile gemula Cresson, 1878    
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Hymenoptera   >   Family Megachilidae   >   Genus Megachile   

Description:

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

There are 11 records in the project database.

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A female Megachile gemula collected in Prince George's Co., Maryland. Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A female Megachile gemula collected in Prince George's Co., Maryland. Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A female Megachile gemula collected in Prince George's Co., Maryland. Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)


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