Judging from her appearance, the transformists tell us that she was an Anthidium, that is to say, she used to gather the soft cotton-wool from the dry stalks of the lanate plants and fashion it into wallets, in which to heap up the pollen-dust which she gleaned from the flowers by means of. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
Anthidium (see also Cotton-bee, Diadem Anthidium). From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
This last Anthidium is the victim also of the Unarmed Zonitis. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
The Stelis preserves the ancestral characteristics of the Anthidium; the Coelioxys-bee recalls the Leaf-cutter. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
Indolence has not evolved her from an Anthidium. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
Diadem Anthidium. From Wordnik.com. [The Mason-Bees] Reference
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