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Wool Carder Bees
Anthidium
Anthidium is a genus of bees often called carder or potter bees, who use conifer resin, plant hairs, mud, or a mix of them to build nests. They are in the family Megachilidae which is cosmopolitan in distribution and made up of species that are mostly solitary bees with pollen-carrying scopa that are only located on the ventral surface of the abdomen. Other bee families have the pollen-carrying structures on the hind legs. Typically species of...
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Anthidium
subgenusAnthidium
Proanthidium
subgenusProanthidium
Severanthidium
subgenusSeveranthidium
Gulanthidium
subgenusGulanthidium
Nivanthidium
subgenusNivanthidium
Anthidium stevensoni
speciesAnthidium stevensoni
Turkanthidium
subgenusTurkanthidium
Anthidium akermani
speciesAnthidium akermani
Anthidium himalayense
speciesAnthidium himalayense
Anthidium flaviventre
speciesAnthidium flaviventre
Anthidium modestum
speciesAnthidium modestum
Anthidium crassidens
speciesAnthidium crassidens
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57671.