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Both Leaf Cutter Bees on Flowers

Bee Life and information, Bee Species, Dark Leaf Cutter Bee, Leaf Cutter Bee, Red Leaf Cutter Bee, Vilcabamba Ecuador S.America Flowers, Vilcabamba Ecuador South America Bee Life

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Both Leaf Cutter Bees on Flowers. Both the black and red leaf cutter bee species foraging on cosmos flowers, flying passed each other.

Cosmos flowers attract a lot of species of bees.

The black leaf cutter bee and the red leaf cutter bee are foraging on cosmos flowers. You know its a leaf cutter bee by identifying on her lower abdomen the yellow hairs that gather pollen. They cut leaves with their nippers to take pieces to make a rolled leaf nest.  View how here.

Both leaf cutter bees on flowers, now fly passed each other and have a look at each other. Such special bees that work hard and pollinate the flowers and fruit blossoms and vegetables well. See life cycle here.

Below is the red leaf cutter bee.

Below is the black leaf cutter Bee.

See her building her nest with a video slide, also fighting off a wasp.

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