A Mason Bee
Osmia chalybea
Nesting biology 4
Nest in holes in wood blocks or pithy stems. Cell partitions and caps are made of leaf pulp (Cane et al. 2007).
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- (c) USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8507/8398458982_81c543740e_o.jpg
- (c) USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8463/8397372149_4085d6e957_o.jpg
- (c) USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8076/8398460270_0e7c319b38_o.jpg
- (c) Gonzalez Betancourt, Victor Hugo, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/13611259
