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This bee's nest architecture is described by Sakagami and Michener (1962): Nest architecture is Type II: Lateral burrows branch off from the main burrow. These lateral burrows contain cells constructed in series, such that each blocks the one previously constructed.

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1. (c) Sean McCann, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/170573625_cc302769c6_o.jpg
2. (c) Smith, Adam, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/11490505

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