Forest habitats and plant communities strongly predicts Megachilidae bee biodiversity [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Megachilidae is one of the United States’ most diverse bee families, with 667 described species in 19 genera. Unlike other bee families, which are primarily ground nesters, most megachilid bees require biotic cavities for nesting (i.e., wood, pithy stems,
Lindsie M. McCabe +2 more
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Leafcutting Bees, Megachilidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Megachilidae: Megachilinae) [PDF]
EDIS, 2005 Leafcutting bees are important native pollinators of North America. They use cut leaves to construct nests in cavities (mostly in rotting wood). They create multiple cells in the nest, each with a single larva and pollen stored for the larvae to eat ...
David Serrano
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Mitochondrial genome of the mason bee, Osmia pedicornis (Hymenopetra: Megachilidae) [PDF]
Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2020 The mason bee, Osmia pedicornis Cockerell, 1919, which is importantly used as the pollinator, particularly for apples in Korea. We sequenced the mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of O.
Hyung Joo Yoon +4 more
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Solitary Bees Acquire and Deposit Bacteria via Flowers: Testing the Environmental Transmission Hypothesis Using <i>Osmia lignaria</i>, <i>Phacelia tanacetifolia</i>, and <i>Apilactobacillus micheneri</i>. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe followed a sequence of flight cage experimental steps where we allowed bees to interact with bacteria‐inoculated flowers (10:30 am), before let them interact with new uninoculated flowers (11:30 am). Later, we allowed a new set of bees (1:30 pm) to interact with these shared flowers.
Argueta-Guzmán M +2 more
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How Bees Respond Differently to Field Margins of Shrubby and Herbaceous Plants in Intensive Agricultural Crops of the Mediterranean Area [PDF]
Insects, 2019 (1) Intensive agriculture has a high impact on pollinating insects, and conservation strategies targeting agricultural landscapes may greatly contribute to their maintenance.
Juan Antonio Sanchez +4 more
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European Journal of Entomology, 2006 We describe augmentation of managed populations of Osmia cornuta and O. rufa in the vicinity of Belgrade (Serbia). Annual augmentation of O. cornuta populations was more than five-fold during the six years of our study.
Ljubiša Stanisavljevi
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Bee-Mediated Pollen Transport Across Five Urban Landscape Features: Buildings Are Important Barriers. [PDF]
Ecol EvolUrban landscape features may disrupt or facilitate the foraging movements of insect pollinators; for example, bees are more likely to move along roads than across them. Here, we investigated not only roads but also lawns, gardens, forests, and buildings by measuring the transfer of fluorescent dye between flowering plants separated by each feature ...
Roper OI, Youngsteadt E.
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A cytochrome P450 insecticide detoxification mechanism is not conserved across the Megachilidae family of bees [PDF]
Evolutionary ApplicationsRecent work has demonstrated that many bee species have specific cytochrome P450 enzymes (P450s) that can efficiently detoxify certain insecticides. The presence of these P450s, belonging or closely related to the CYP9Q subfamily (CYP9Q‐related), is ...
Angela Hayward +10 more
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Phylogeny and biogeography of bees of the tribe Osmiini (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) [PDF]
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2008 The Osmiini (Megachilidae) constitute a taxonomically and biologically diverse tribe of bees. To resolve their generic and suprageneric relationships, we inferred a phylogeny based on three nuclear genes (Elongation factor 1-alpha, LW-rhodopsin and CAD) applying both parsimony and Bayesian methods.
Andreas Müller +2 more
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The Megachilidae of Southern Maine [PDF]
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1907 J. H. Lovell, T. D. A. Cockerell
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