{"id":31,"date":"2014-02-02T18:50:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T18:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2014-02-03T00:34:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:34:03","slug":"leafcutting-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Leafcutting bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The leafcutting bee <em>(Megachile latimanus)<\/em>\u00a0is a common and widespread solitary bee found between May and October in dry areas of savannas, grasslands, and agricultural fields. It has a stout, entirely black body densely covered with mostly pale yellow and black hairs. Unlike most bees the pollen-collecting hairs on leafcutting bees are on the underside of the abdomen, not on the legs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_32\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/leafcutting_bee_03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32\" alt=\"Photo by Bill Reynolds\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/leafcutting_bee_03-300x214.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/leafcutting_bee_03-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/leafcutting_bee_03-624x445.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/leafcutting_bee_03.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-32\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Bill Reynolds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This bee gets its common name from the nest-building female. She uses her enlarged, scissor-like mandibles to cut disks from leaves and uses the disks to create individual nests for her eggs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=31\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leafcutting bee (Megachile latimanus)\u00a0is a common and widespread solitary bee found between May and October in dry areas of savannas, grasslands, and agricultural fields. It has a stout, entirely black body densely covered with mostly pale yellow and black hairs. Unlike most bees the pollen-collecting hairs on leafcutting bees are on the underside of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6,7,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}