MAKE A MEME View Large Image Here you can see the sculptured wonder of an Osmia's Mandibles...designed to cut leaves to line their nests. While indistinct you can see the notch out of the rim of the clypeus that defines this species. The classic Blue Orchard Bee, that ...
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