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Hymenoptera
Cuckoo Bee (Nomadinae)
Nomada flava
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wallaby1
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July 2008
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This is a cleptoparasitic Cuckoo bee, laying it's eggs in other Mining Bee nests.
Seen mostly from April to June.
There are other very similar species, the pattern on the thorax varies in some, also the pattern on the abdomen.
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wallaby1
Seen mostly from April to June.
There are other very similar species, the pattern on the thorax varies in some, also the pattern on the abdomen.