No Common Name

The colorful little Coelioxys coturnix is a recently introduced Eurasian species. They’re a cuckoo species, cleptoparasitic, laying their eggs in Megachile nests. Which Megachile are attacked this way here–does anybody even know yet?

Foraging on Horseweed/Erigeron canadensis.

On Sunday the 17th, I’ll be doing another of my Green-Wood Bugging Out Walks for Kids.