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- Kingdom - Animals - Animalia
  - Phylum - Spiders, Insects, and Crustaceans - Arthropoda
    - Class - Insects - Insecta
      - Order - Sawflies / Wasps / Bees / Ants - Hymenoptera
        
        Family - Mason, Carder, and Leafcutter Bees - Megachilidae
        
        Species - Small-handed Leafcutter Bee - Megachile gemula

Small-handed Leafcutter Bee - Megachile gemula

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Native Species

Global Rank: G5
State Rank: SNR

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References

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- Burkle L.A., M.P. Simanonok, J.S. Durney, J.A. Myers, and R.T. Belote. 2019. Wildfires influence abundance, diversity, and intraspecific and interspecific trait variation of native bees and flowering plants across burned and unburned landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7(252):1-14.
- Delphia, C.M., J.B. Runyon, and K.M. O'Neill. 2020. Clear plastic bags of bark mulch trap and kill female Megachile (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) searching for nesting sites. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 92(4):649-654.
- Reese, E.G., L.A. Burkle, C.M. Delphia, and T. Griswold. 2018. A list of bees from three locations in the Northern Rockies Ecoregion (NRE) of western Montana. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e27161.
- Simanonok, M. 2018. Plant-pollinator network assembly after wildfire. Ph.D. Dissertation. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 123 p.
- Simanonok, M.P. and L.A. Burkle. 2019. Nesting success of wood-cavity-nesting bees declines with increasing time since wildfire. Ecology and Evolution 9:12436-12445.
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Citation for data on this website:
Small-handed Leafcutter Bee — Megachile gemula. Montana Field Guide. Montana Natural Heritage Program. Retrieved on November 21, 2024, from https://FieldGuide.mt.gov/speciesDetail.aspx?elcode=IIHYMA9050