Hoary leafcutter bee
The hoary leafcutter bee is a medium-sized bee from the southeastern United States and the islands of Bermuda. The males and females have different colours, and the females can be very dark. It belongs to the leafcutter bees.
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Fun facts
In the United States it lives from Virginia down to Florida and west to Texas, mostly along the coast.
On Bermuda it now lives only in a small nature reserve, mostly on Nonsuch Island.
On Bermuda it is the only insect or spider that is protected by law.
Scientists found that the Bermuda bees are a bit different in their genes from the American ones.
Most asked questions about Hoary leafcutter bee
?Where does the hoary leafcutter bee live?
In the southeastern United States, mostly near the coast, and on the islands of Bermuda.
?How big is a hoary leafcutter bee?
About 11 to 13 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Megachile pruina
- Named by
- Smith, 1853
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Megachile pruina (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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