Horn-faced leafcutter bee
The horn-faced leafcutter bee is a black bee covered in golden yellow hair. You can see the fuzzy hair on its face, its back and its legs. It loves visiting flowers in meadows and gardens in the western United States.
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Fun facts
It carries pollen in a special hairy patch under its belly, not on its legs like many other bees.
The young bees hatch in a row of little rooms inside a tunnel. A bee waits patiently until all the bees closer to the door have left before it comes out.
Its babies grow up very fast inside their little rooms.
The new bees usually leave their nest in spring.
Most asked questions about Horn-faced leafcutter bee
?What does the horn-faced leafcutter bee eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers, especially daisy-like ones.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Megachile fidelis
- Named by
- Cresson, 1878
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Faithful leafcutting bee
Where the facts come from
- Megachile fidelis (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 iNaturalist user: rojasburke. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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