This species is actually a wasp, not a bee. It uses floral resources during it's adulthood, but provisions nest cells with other insects (rather than pollen) as protein sources for it's young.
david
05-Feb-2009 18:19
You might want to check your species on this one. This does not look like Habropoda miserabilis. They are silver. www.fws.gov/humboldtbay/beeguide/bees.html
