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Megachile pugnata pugnata
Long abdomen with black and white striping. Dark smokey wings. Female: 12-18 mm. Male 11-13 mm.
LISDOLA (Lewisville Independent School District Outdoor Learning Area) is an eighty-acre tract of land located on the south side of Lake Lewisville Dam in Denton County. The landscape boasts wetlands, forests, fields, rivers and streams and contains approximately five miles of hiking trails. The outdoor learning area was created in the fall of 1999 when the school district erected two portable classrooms.
Spotted on Nov 16, 2012
Submitted on Nov 18, 2012
2 Comments
Thanks. I was thinking Long Horn bee and wrote Hoverfly. Have changed it to unknown. Maybe someone can ID this small insect.
Hello. Those multi-segmented antennae don't look like they belong to a (hover or Eristalinae) fly to me...See http://bugguide.net/node/view/12620 I'm guessing a kind of wasp.