Texas Leaf-cutter Bee Megachile texana Cresson, 1878    
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Hymenoptera   >   Family Megachilidae   >   Genus Megachile   

Description:

Nests are categorized as ground burrows, and social behavior is categorized as solitary to communal (Selfridge et al., 2017).

There are 16 records in the project database.

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A female Megachile texana collected in Baltimore City, Maryland (6/25/2013). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A female Megachile texana collected in Baltimore City, Maryland (6/25/2013). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

A female Megachile texana in Baltimore City, Maryland (6/25/2013). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)


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