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Wool Carder Bee

Anthidium manicatum

Classification

Class
Insecta

Anthidium manicatum, commonly called the European wool carder bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees and mason bees. They get the name "carder" from their behaviour of scraping hair from leaves such as lamb's ears (Stachys byzantina), similar to the way textile workers card fibers. They carry this hair bundled beneath their bodies to be used as a nest lining.

Distribution

Martien van den Heuvel · CC BY
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Netherlands · 5,229Germany · 4,054United Kingdom · 1,349Switzerland · 713France · 471Spain · 198Italy · 131Belgium · 82Luxembourg · 66