Using Your Belly - _TNY_8530
The European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum), like this female on a house leek (Sempervivum tectorum) belong to the family Megachilidae.
This means that they don't gather pollen on their hind thighs like most other bees, Instead, they have dense hair on the underside of their abdomen which is used as pollen storage.
The little girl here has however managed to get pollen here and there all over herself so I suppose it is time to gather it up soon.
Photo taken in my mother-in-law's garden outside Härnösand, Sweden in July of 2024.
Using Your Belly - _TNY_8530
The European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum), like this female on a house leek (Sempervivum tectorum) belong to the family Megachilidae.
This means that they don't gather pollen on their hind thighs like most other bees, Instead, they have dense hair on the underside of their abdomen which is used as pollen storage.
The little girl here has however managed to get pollen here and there all over herself so I suppose it is time to gather it up soon.
Photo taken in my mother-in-law's garden outside Härnösand, Sweden in July of 2024.