Oblong woolcarder bee
The oblong woolcarder bee is a bee that loves warm, dry, sunny places. It builds its nest in narrow cracks in stone walls and rocks. Inside, it makes cosy little rooms for its babies out of soft plant wool.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It likes cracks that are just 5 to 6 millimetres wide, like those in dry stone walls.
It paints the outside of its nest with a rust-coloured liquid from its body.
It was found in the eastern United States in 1995, and has spread across much of North America since then.
It flies once a year, from the middle of June to early August.
Most asked questions about Oblong woolcarder bee
?Why is it called a woolcarder bee?
It collects soft, woolly hairs from plants and uses them to build the rooms of its nest.
?Where does the oblong woolcarder bee nest?
In narrow cracks in stone walls and rocks, and sometimes in holes in houses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Anthidium oblongatum
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Megachilidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America
Where the facts come from
- Anthidium oblongatum (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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