If you are coming to the Museum on Sunday, May 26, please use one of the following entrances: 79th Street and Central Park West, subway entrance, or Weston Pavilion (Columbus Avenue entrance). The 81st Street entrance will be closed, but the Hayden Planetarium Space Show will be shown on a normal schedule.
This is the head of a mature larva of a Turkish solitary bee belonging to the genus Hoplitis belonging to the leaf-cutter bee family Megachilidae.
Jerome G. Rozen, Jr. is a Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at AMNH.