Maryland Biodiversity Project - Blue Orchard Bee (Osmia lignaria)

Blue Orchard Bee Osmia lignaria Say, 1837

Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Class Insecta > Order Hymenoptera > Family Megachilidae > Genus Osmia Blue Orchard Bee - Osmia lignaria - https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/view/3369

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

There are 16 records in the project database.

Blue Orchard Bee in Montgomery Co., Maryland (4/4/2021). (c) Katja Schulz, some rights reserved (CC BY). Photo by Katja Schulz via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

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