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This Bully Bee Goes for the Blue Plate Special

It's a bully. But what a bully! Ever seen the male European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum)...

European wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, heads toward a blue spike sage, Salvia uliginosa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

European wool carder bee, Anthidium manicatum, heads toward a blue spike sage, Salvia uliginosa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The European wool carder bee, an Old World bee, seems to prefer blue flowers with a long throat. This is blue spike sage, Salvia uliginosa, a native of Brazil. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The European wool carder bee, an Old World bee, seems to prefer blue flowers with a long throat. This is blue spike sage, Salvia uliginosa, a native of Brazil. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Two European wool carder bees in the process of giving the world more wool carder bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Two European wool carder bees in the process of giving the world more wool carder bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Friday, July 20, 2018 at 4:28 PM

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Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey

Tags: Anthidium manicatum (18), blue spike sage (1), Bohart Museum of Entomology (362), bonker bees (1), bullies (1), Davis (13), European wool carder bee (13), Kathy Keatley Garvey (15), Lynn Kimsey (271), Salvia uliginosa (1), University of California (11)

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