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🐝 Ants, Bees & Wasps

Sharp-tailed Bee

Coelioxys conoidea

Near Threatened

About

A cleptoparasitic bee with a sharply pointed abdomen used to pierce the cell walls of leafcutter bee nests. Females lay their eggs directly into provisioned host cells.

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Did You Know?

The female's dagger-like abdomen tip is so sharp it can slice through multiple layers of leaf cell walls to deposit an egg.