Author Marc Newman ◦
Megachile deanii. I’m assuming male and female, but the “male” was having trouble getting back into the nest. She wasn’t having a bar of him.
An eventual truce was reached and he made it inside… 😀
The altercation ?… started just below the nest site.
They dropped to the floor.
This doesn’t look right.
He’s trying to escape into a spare nest.
Back up to the nest. No entry buster.
The male has no scopa on underside of abdomen.
Peering hopefully inside, ant checking too. Note the mites.
Megachile (Rhodomegachile) deanii, Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Additional titbit
No, I didn’t cut myself. I was “entranced” watching the constant stream of pollen against the western sun from our Angophora floribunda, as insects in the high branch flowers did their thing. Then I noticed a constant stream of insects apparently attracted to one broken off limb. Investigation with ladder revealed a pool of resin, a happy resource for the resin bees nesting in my bee hotel.
Author Marc Newman
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