Wool carder bee
Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Status not recordedbees wasps and ants
The wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) is a species in the family Megachilidae, order Hymenoptera. Recorded adults reach 1.6 cm in length. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia.
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Quick facts about the wool carder bee
- Weight
- Not recorded
- Length
- 1 cm – 1.6 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- Not recorded
- Diet
- Nectarivoresrc for Diet
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- grassland, human_modifiedsrc for Habitat
- Young per litter or clutch
- Not recorded
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- 1 countrysrc for Countries on record
How big is the wool carder bee?
Where does the wool carder bee live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The wool carder bee is listed for 1 country.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
Why a country list is not a range map
Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the wool carder bee as introduced in 2 countries.
Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).
Is the wool carder bee endangered?
No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.
How is the wool carder bee classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderHymenoptera
- familyMegachilidae
- genusAnthidium
- SpeciesAnthidium manicatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms Anthidium barbarum, Anthidium maculatum, Anthidium manicatum cyrenaica, Anthidium manicatum fasciatum, Anthidium manicatum luteus, Anthidium manicatum nasicolle, Anthidium manicatum nigrithorax, Anthidium manicatum subcrenulata, Anthidium marginatum, Anthidium obtusatum, Anthidium productum, Anthidium subcrenulatum, Anthophora manicata, Apis amoenita, Apis fulvipes, Apis maculata, Apis manicata, Apis modesta, Apis pervigil, Apis uncata, Megachile manicata, Trachusa manicatum
Other names and names in other languages (22)
- European wool carder beeEnglish
- Wool-carder beeEnglish
- valchářka obecnáCzech
- UldbiDanish
- Stor uldbiDanish
- Große WollbieneGerman
- Garten-WollbieneGerman
- Μέλισσα ΥφάντραGreek
- seinähuopamehiläinenFinnish
- Abeille cotonnièreFrench
- Anthidie à manchettesFrench
- Anthidie cotonnièreFrench
- Rajzos pelyhesméhHungarian
- storullbieNorwegian Bokmål
- Grote wolbijDutch
- Makatka zbójnicaPolish
- Abelha-cotanilhosaPortuguese
- Пчела-шерстобитRussian
- Антидия манжетнаяRussian
- vlnárka balotováSlovak
- storullbiSwedish
- större ullbiSwedish
Relatives of the wool carder bee
Other species in the same genus Anthidium.
Florentine Woolcarder bee
Anthidium florentinum
Oblong Woolcarder bee
Anthidium oblongatum
Punctate wool-carder bee
Anthidium punctatum
Seven-spined Woolcarder
Anthidium septemspinosum
Illustrated Woolcarder bee
Anthidium illustre
Lot's Woolcarder
Anthidium loti
CompareWool carder bee vs Florentine Woolcarder beeWool carder bee vs Oblong Woolcarder beeWool carder bee vs Punctate wool-carder beeWool carder bee vs Seven-spined Woolcarder
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the wool carder bee?
An adult wool carder bee measures 1 cm – 1.6 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
Where does the wool carder bee live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the wool carder bee for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
Is the wool carder bee an invasive species?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the wool carder bee as introduced in 2 countries: Brazil and United States, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.
What kind of animal is the wool carder bee?
The wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum) belongs to the family Megachilidae in the order Hymenoptera.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.
- Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf - Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group. - TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe · CC BY 4.0 · 2.0
Chauvier, Y., Adde, A., Bergamini, A. et al. (2025) TraitCH: a multi-taxa functional trait dataset for Switzerland and Europe. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15063844
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