* Identification probable, but by no means certain.
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Description: Colletidae are often referred to collectively as plasterer bees, due to their method of smoothing the walls of their nest cells with secretions applied with their mouthparts; these secretions dry into a cellophane-like lining. There are 5 subfamilies, 54 genera, and over 2000 species, all of them evidently solitary, though many nest in aggregations. They tend to nest in the ground or in crevices in brick and stones.
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