Leafcutter Bee Photos
by Erica Siegel
and 'Peter O'

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Erica Siegel of Queensland kindly contributed the following amazing photographs about leafcutter bees to the Aussie Bee website:

Above: Erica Siegel captured this fantastic close up shot of a leafcutter bee in the process of snipping a piece from a leaf! Notice this bee's powerful mandible or jaw that the bee uses for cutting the leaf pieces.

Above: Another beautiful shot by Erica Siegel of a leafcutter bee in action. Leafcutter bees use these leaf pieces to weave cells for their young inside their nest burrows.

Above: the characteristically uniform cuts made in soft leaves by leafcutter bees.

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"Peter O' captured this furry leafcutter bee in action snipping a leaf piece for her nest:

Above: leaf cutter bees grasp the leaf pieces with their legs to carry them back to their nests.

More Photographs of Leafcutter Bees See Videos of Leafcutter Bees More Photographs by Erica Siegel and 'Peter O'