A fresh female Chocolate Mining Bee rests on the mottled greeny-yellow surface of an aucuba leaf. This is quite a large bee, at about 1.5cm in length. Her head, abdomen and legs are black with brown hair, and her thorax is dark brown with a rich chestnut-brown pile. She has a stylops - the head of a parasitic insect called a Strepsiptera - protruding between her fourth and fifth abdominal segments.
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