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Feasibility of Preparing Nesting Box and Luring Large Solitary Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa Valga [PDF]
Journal of Apicultural Science, 2017 Xylocopa valga, commonly called the carpenter bee and the largest bee with metallicviolet hair cover, is extremely rarely observed in Poland. We hypothesize that a stable and possibly long-term population of X.
Schulz Michał +8 more
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The large carpenter bees of central Saudi Arabia, with notes on the biology of Xylocopa sulcatipes Maa (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Xylocopinae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2012 The large carpenter bees (Xylocopinae, Xylocopa Latreille) occurring in central Saudi Arabia are reviewed. Two species are recognized in the fauna, Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) aestuans (Linnaeus) and X. (Ctenoxylocopa) sulcatipes Maa.
Mohammed Hannan +3 more
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Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2022 Gynandromorphs are individuals that display both male and female features throughout the body and are rarely found in nature. We document and describe two new gynandromorphs of the large carpenter bee Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) augusti reared from a trap ...
Valentín Almada +3 more
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Sociobiology, 2023 Mites have long been associated with bees, often showing a close relationship with particular taxa, probably due to a co-evolutionary process. The present study is the first confirmation on the occurrence of the mite species Calvolia summersi (Mostafa ...
Dibyajyoti Ghosh +2 more
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Evolutionary Applications, 2021 Human activity continues to impact global ecosystems, often by altering the habitat suitability, persistence, and movement of native species. It is thus critical to examine the population genetic structure of key ecosystemservice providers across human ...
Kimberly M. Ballare, Shalene Jha
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Visual Adaptations for Mate Detection in the Male Carpenter Bee Xylocopa tenuiscapa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Sexual dimorphism in eye structure is attributed to sexual selection in animals that employ vision for locating mates. In many male insects, large eyes and eye regions of higher acuity are believed to facilitate the location of females.
Hema Somanathan +3 more
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Sequence Capture and Phylogenetic Utility of Genomic Ultraconserved Elements Obtained from Pinned Insect Specimens. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Obtaining sequence data from historical museum specimens has been a growing research interest, invigorated by next-generation sequencing methods that allow inputs of highly degraded DNA.
Bonnie B Blaimer +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Many recent studies have suggested that the majority of animal-pollinated plants have a higher diversity of pollinators than that expected according to their pollination syndrome.
Eliška Padyšáková +3 more
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Range expansion of an already widespread bee under climate change
Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 Climate change is a key threat to pollination networks and has already caused shifts in the distribution and phenology of many bee species. Predictions based on species distribution models forecast that most bee species will continue to decline as ...
Rebecca M. Dew +2 more
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Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2018 Nectar production has an important role in pollinator attraction and successful fruit production in many self-incompatible angiosperm groups. The reproductive biology of Passiflora actinia was studied here and related to nectar dynamics.
Isabela Galarda Varassin +5 more
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