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This bee is best known for the habit of cutting semi circles from leaf's with the large jaws to make sausage-shaped cells in their cavities from the leaf segments. Can be seen and found in habitats such as gardens, parks etc from May-August.
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I'm uploading this shot of a very handsome male Willughby's leafcutter bee for today's 'Looking close... on Friday!' theme 'Bees'.
This cutie was resting on the base of our hammock, watching over the white clover beneath for potential mates or competing males.
I’ve noticed, this year, how may different varieties of Hoverflies there are.
I had thought this was a Hoverfly but Sylvester K has identified it as Leafcutter Bee.
HBBBT
A couple of Australian Native Bees. A Resin Bee (Left) and a Leafcutter Bee (right) having their day among some Darling Peas flowers.
My first newly hatched Leafcutter Bee of 2021. I live in Maryland but I raise these bees from cocoons that I purchase from a breeder. I have a house set up for them in my yard right by my garden.
A couple of Australian Native Bees. A Resin Bee (Left) and a Leafcutter Bee (right) having their day among some Darling Peas flowers.
Working in the middle of this Paper Daisy is a Leafcutter Bee. It's gathering pollen for its solitary nest. Leafcutter doesn't carry that pollen on its legs in the way of for example Honeybees; instead it's abdomen has small reddish hairs that serve as a kind of basket for pollen. You can see it clearly in the photo.
Incidentally, technically speaking only the Yellow Centre of Paper Daisy is the gathering of flower with stamens and pistils. The surrounding papery 'petals' are in fact bracts formed from the topmost foliage of the flower.
This was my first Leafcutter Bee of the year. It had emerged from it's cocoon just a few minutes before I took this photo. It almost instantly went to work on the nearest flower. Photographed in Maryland on 6/7/23.
Broad-handed leafcutters are one of the biggest leaf-cutter bee species. Males have a large fuzzy fringe on their foreleg - his "broad" hands. This mother is gathering pollen that she will mold into a nutritious bread-like loaf for her larvae to feed on once they hatch from their leafy nest cells hidden in an underground tunnel. Last summer's larvae have pupated now and are waiting for next summer's warm weather to emerge as adults.
A honey bee (Apis mellifera) was flying by a Willughby's Leafcutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella), interested in the same flower.
Here's another photo of the first Leafcutter Bee's in my garden this year. Taken in Maryland on 6/7/23.
... or Willy Bee to his family and friends.
I'm so lucky to have Willughby's leafcutter bees (Megachile willughbiella) nesting in the garden. This handsome chap was roosting on a dandelion after the rain. A single image taken using my MP-E 65mm lens.
"Good Grief! Don't you have anything better to do than following me around with a camera?!"
Leaf-cutter Bee, photographed in my Maryland garden.
The leafcutter ants feed themselves with the roots of the mushrooms that they cultivate in their nests. They collect leaves and other fresh vegetation to create a nutritional substrate to allow the mushrooms to grow in their nests.
The first of the Leafcutter Bees, that I'm raising, to emerge from it's cocoon. I think it's beautiful. Photographed in Maryland.
11 image focus stack, taken with the camera hand held. Canon 80D, Canon 65mm MPE macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400, flash power set to 1/32
Leafcutter Bee. Photographed in Maryland.
A single image, shot hand held. Canon 80D, Canon MPE macro lens, Canon twin macro flash. Aperture f/11, shutter speed 1/250, ISO 400, flash set to 1/16th power.
You know you have leafcutter bees around when you see leaves that look like this. I couldn't cut a perfect circle like that in a leaf if I tried 100 times, but these leafcutter bees make it look easy. They seem to prefer leaves from roses, lilacs and in this case honeysuckle.
Leafcutter bee in Lakeside, AZ. These solitary bees dig a tunnel in the soil and construct a long column of cells, each lined with pieces of neatly cut leaves. The female lays an egg in each cell and supplies it with pollen and nectar for the larva to feed on. (Source: Wikipedia)
I have no clue what kind of bee, wasp or whatever this is. I do know it is on some Aster flowers! :D Thanks to Leigh Ayres for the identification of this bee!! (Leafcutter bee)
An adorable male Willughby's leafcutter showing off his mandibles as he emerges from roosting in a bee hotel in my garden. Photographed with my MP-E 65mm lens.
I really like these little broad-handed leafcutter bees. Males are quite easy to identify with their gleaming green eyes and front legs that look like they're wearing long white socks. You can see the front leg on this bee right below his eye. Notice how wide the fringe of white hairs on his front leg is - hence the name broad-handed leafcutter. Female broad-handed leafcutter bees cut out small round circles in tree or shrub leaves to seal off their nesting tunnels underground with little leaf doors.
Megachile binominata ♀
Leafcutter Bee
Blattschneiderbiene
Bladskærerbi
Abeja cortahojas
Flying at Aeonium lancerottense
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
Except for ISO, the EXIF data are incorrect, because the equipment used is not Canon-compatible:
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After many years of use, my old Tamron 90mm macro lens finally gave up the ghost. I'd bought it second-hand too. Finally treated myself (second-hand again) to an image-stabilised Canon 100mm. I love it! It's encouraged me to try more natural light work too; helped by the excellent noise-reduction software that enables higher ISO shots to be more successful.
I think this is a female Patchwork Leafcutter Bee (Megachile centuncularis).
Megachile binominata ♂
Leafcutter Bee
Blattschneiderbiene
Bladskærerbi
The female is shown in the previous image!
Endemic to Fuerteventura and Lanzarote
At Aeonium lancerottense
Exposure time (= flash duration): 50 µs = 1/20.000 s
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