Wool Carder Bee

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A few weeks ago I first noticed a large black and yellow bug spending time at my “Victoria Blue” Salvia flowers. It would fly from the plant at one end of my garden bed to the plant at …

Cute Wild Animals on Instagram: “Hardworker Bee Carrying Polen🐝🧡 Wool carder bees are so named because the female bee scrapes and collects the soft downy hairs (trichomes)…”

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You can add Basil to the list of plants that attract natural pollinators -I've lost count of the number of different bees I've seen feeding in it. As an added bonus the flowers are more flavorful than the leaves (I use them when I make Bruschetta). Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F13, 1/60, ISO 200) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens with 37mm of extension + a diffused MT-24EX (-1/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. Technique: I injected 2:1 sugar syrup into the flowers to give…

Anthidium manicatum, commonly called the European wool carder bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees or mason bees. (Source: Wikipedia, '', http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthidium_manicatum, CC BY-SA 3.0 . Photo: (c) frank007, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by frank007)

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In the UK..wool carder bee:) by Caroline Jones

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