Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Bee: Colletes???

Posted by Isidro on 15-11-2007 16:00
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October 2007. Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. 200 meters high. Continental-mediterranean climate. Urban garden. A medium-sized bee (maybe 16-18 mm), very similar looking to the very common halictus scabiosae, but it looks slighly different, and very slighly bigger) repose in the leaves of Abelia x grandiflora. Its behavour is curious: opening an closing in an intermitent way its mandibles.

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Somebody can identify it (my thread never have answers :( but... )

Christian?