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Spotting

Description:

less than 1cm. long, hymenoptera. flies into small holes in wood, presumably lays an egg and then plugs hole with some form or wood pulp

Habitat:

wood door frame

Notes:

Is it a bee or wasp?

1 Species ID Suggestions

BugEric
BugEric 10 years ago
Leafcutter bee
Chelostoma sp. Genus Chelostoma - BugGuide.Net


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5 Comments

brettpim
brettpim 11 years ago

Do you think Ceratina is also a possibility:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratinini

Juan DiTrani
Juan DiTrani 11 years ago

Hi Brett. This is a Megachilid bee. It's impossible to be sure about the genus. Maybe Chelostoma

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

agreed.

brettpim
brettpim 11 years ago

It is quite similar but I would say mine is not so hairy.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

It looks similar to this one brett ?... http://bugguide.net/node/view/280919

brettpim
Spotted by
brettpim

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Spotted on Jun 27, 2012
Submitted on Jul 8, 2012

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