Two-coloured mason bee (Osmia bicolor) sealing a brood cell in a Brown-lipped snail (Cepaeae nemoralis) shell with chewed up leaves, April, UK.

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Two-coloured mason bee (Osmia bicolor) sealing a brood cell in a Brown-lipped snail (Cepaeae nemoralis) shell with chewed up leaves after provisioning it with balls of pollen and nectar, on a chalk grassland slope, Bath and northeast Somerset, UK, April.

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Location: Bath and Northeast Somerset, UK
Photo credit: © Nick Upton / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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