Resin Bees at Yarralumla, ACT
Identification history
| Megachile sp. (several subgenera) | 25 May 2017 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Megachile (Hackeriapis) tosticauda | 22 Mar 2017 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Megachile tosticauda | 21 Mar 2017 | PeterA |
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4 comments
michael.batley
wrote:
22 Mar 2017
There is a different bee in each picture. Image 1 is a male leaf-cutter bee that looks to me like M. maculariformis, but the details are not clear enough to be certain. Image 2 is of a female resin bee, which appears to be too large to be M. tosticauda. It may be M. heliophila, but there are other possibilities.
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
22 Mar 2017
Thanks Michael.
Peter, can you please edit this sighting. Remove the second photo and put it in as a new sighting.
Peter, can you please edit this sighting. Remove the second photo and put it in as a new sighting.
PeterA
wrote:
23 Mar 2017
Thanks, Michael. Sorry I mixed up a couple of images there. I have separated them to two sightings and added a couple more images, which may or may not make ID easier. I still think the one above may be tosticauda - I have a specimen which is 10mm. The second one (new record now), I don't know. How did you know it was male?
MichaelBedingfield
wrote:
23 Mar 2017
Thanks Peter, that's great. Bees can be difficult to ID and the more details we can see on the animals the better.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.106781-35.303731
- Altitude 570.9m
- Places Yarralumla, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 23 Jan 2017 10:25 AM Recorded on
- PeterA Recorded by
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Collections
Insects Bees (Hymenoptera, Apiformes) PeterA
Additional information
- Tristaniopsis laurina Associated plant
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- 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
- 82 images trained Machine learning
- External link More information
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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