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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Hairy-saddled Colletes

Colletes succinctus

Near Threatened

About

A late-summer plasterer bee that is a specialist on heather, secreting a cellophane-like lining in its underground nest cells. It is an important heathland indicator species.

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Did You Know?

The cellophane-like substance it secretes to waterproof its nest cells is a unique biopolymer not found in any other group of animals.