Megachile sp. (several subgenera)

Resin Bees at Paddys River, ACT

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	Megachile sp. (several subgenera)	12 Mar 2019	MichaelMulvaney
	Megachile sp. (several subgenera)	5 Mar 2019	DPRees125

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michael.batley wrote:

6 Mar 2019

I can't see his forelegs and I am not 100% sure about the size, but he looks a bit like M. maculariformis to me.

DPRees125 wrote:

6 Mar 2019

OK, I'll see what extra I have and I'll see if I can post an additional picture

DPRees125 wrote:

6 Mar 2019

OK, I'll see what extra I have and I'll see if I can post an additional picture

DPRees125 wrote:

6 Mar 2019

have loaded a couple more images with a front on perspective

michael.batley wrote:

6 Mar 2019

Definitely not M. maculariformis, and from the size of the Verbena flowers, a smaller species. My first guess would be M. serricauda, which has some distinctive features, but they are probably too small to be seen in photos unless the original of image 3 has enough resolution to permit enlargement of the front foot.

DPRees125 wrote:

6 Mar 2019

Micheal, thanks for your efforts. I've cut some more images from the feed and put them on here at max resolution, hope it helps.

michael.batley wrote:

7 Mar 2019

Things are getting more complicated. I think the bee in the new image 5 is a different species. The orange on the end of the abdomen extends onto segment 4, but the earlier pictures have a thick white band on that segment. And the projections at the end of the abdomen are a different shape. There really are so many possibilities that we have to leave it as Megachile sp. I do think pictures 1 to 4 are a leaf-cutter, but even then I can't prove it.

DPRees125 wrote:

7 Mar 2019

thanks we will have to have another go with them bees

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At least 1 Abundance
6 Mar 2019 06:16 PM Recorded on
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Insects Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes) DPRees125 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr

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Megachile sp. (several subgenera) Scientific name
Resin Bees Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 683.3m Recorded at altitude
119 images trained Machine learning
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Megachile sp. (several subgenera)

Resin Bees at Paddys River, ACT

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