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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Hornfaced Bee

Osmia cornifrons

About

A robust reddish-brown solitary bee native to Japan, widely used for fruit tree pollination. Females have small horn-like projections on the face.

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Did You Know?

In Japan it has been commercially managed for apple pollination since the 1940s.