# Anthidium manicatum (50868517517)

- By: Gilles San Martin from Namur, Belgium
- Date: 2020-06-02
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: Anthidium manicatum
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anthidium_manicatum_(50868517517).jpg)
- Rights: [CC BY-SA 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/c/c4/Anthidium_manicatum_%2850868517517%29.jpg/1920px-Anthidium_manicatum_%2850868517517%29.jpg
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Anthidium manicatum, commonly called the European wool carder bee is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter bees or mason bees. They get the name "carder" from their behaviour of scraping hair from leaves such as lamb's ears.