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Anthidium manicatum, m, side, Middlesex Co, MA
Anthidium manicatum is an invasive bee that showed up sometime in the 19 eighties in North America. It is particularly fond of garden plants such as stachys and appears to largely be restricted to areas of human occupancy. The specimens come from Massachusetts, and I wish I could recall who gave them to me, but for now I have forgotten. Pictures were taken by Hannah Sutton.
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