Very Territorial - _TNY_1279
The cute one sitting on the leaves of a house leek (Sempervivum tectorum) here is a male European carder bee (Anthidium manicatum). It's one of the Megachilidae bees which use plant hairs to construct their egg chambers.
The males thus claim a territory around suitable plats that the females will need and then chases most everything else away and might even kill perceived intruders.
This is one of the rare few bee species where the male is larger than the female.
Very Territorial - _TNY_1279
The cute one sitting on the leaves of a house leek (Sempervivum tectorum) here is a male European carder bee (Anthidium manicatum). It's one of the Megachilidae bees which use plant hairs to construct their egg chambers.
The males thus claim a territory around suitable plats that the females will need and then chases most everything else away and might even kill perceived intruders.
This is one of the rare few bee species where the male is larger than the female.