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Posts Tagged: European wool carder bee

Catch Me If You Can

Do they ever slow down? Not much. The male European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum), a...

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Posted on Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 7:02 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anthidium manicatum (8), bluebeard (1), body-slamming (1), dive-bombing (1), European wool carder bee (10)

Male Wool Carder Bees: In-Your-Face Behavior

She described it to a "T." That would be "T" for territorial. Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart...

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Posted on Friday, October 10, 2014 at 6:04 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anthidium manicatum (8), European wool carder bee (10), Lynn Kimsey (1)

Those Foxy Wool Carder Bees

Foxgloves, meet the European wool carder bee. European wool carder bee, meet the foxgloves. It's...

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Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2014 at 9:16 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anthidium manicatum (8), European wool carder bee (10), foxgloves (1), honey bees (3)

'Bee a Scientist' on May 8

Get ready! It's almost time to count the pollinators! The University of California's Agriculture...

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Posted on Monday, May 5, 2014 at 10:28 PM

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• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: bee a scientist (1), European wool carder bee (10), green metallic sweat bee (1), honey bee (1), Janet Napolitano (1), long-horned bee (1), UC ANR (1)

They're Not Sheepish on the Lamb's Ear

The next time you're around a lamb's ear--no, not the animal, the plant  (Stachys...

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Posted on Friday, May 31, 2013 at 9:54 PM

Comments: 2

• Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anthidium manicatum (8), European wool carder bee (10), Haagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven (1), honey bees (3), lamb''s ear (1), Stachys byzantina (1)

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