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Mason Bee

Anthidium sp.

Description:

Anthidium have a very special way to sleep, they sleep with their jaw hanging to a stem of grass or a twig of a bush. Their jaw is very strong, since even considerably tossed by the wind, it does not fall and continue to sleep.

Habitat:

It rested on a twig in a fallow calcareous edge of mixed forest at 500m above sea level.

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1 Comment

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Nice!

AnneSorbes
Spotted by
AnneSorbes

Die, Rhône-Alpes, Tromelin Island

Spotted on Jul 23, 2011
Submitted on Dec 8, 2011

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