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)
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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Nesting and Foraging Preferences of Four Sympatric Species of Cavity-Nesting Leafcutting Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) [PDF]
InsectsMegachilidae are crucial pollinators of cultivated and wild vegetation, playing a vital role in ecosystem pollination services, however, there is still a lack of information regarding the ecology and behavior of these species.
Qianlei Dai +6 more
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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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The genome sequence of the silvery leafcutter bee, Megachile leachella Curtis, 1828 [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
Wellcome Open ResearchWe present a genome assembly from an individual female Megachile leachella (the silvery leafcutter bee; Arthropoda; Insecta; Hymenoptera; Megachilidae). The genome sequence is 573.0 megabases in span.
Olga Sivell, William L. S. Hawkes
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DNA barcoding to identify leaf preference of leafcutting bees [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Leafcutting bees (Megachile: Megachilidae) cut leaves from various trees, shrubs, wildflowers and grasses to partition and encase brood cells in hollow plant stems, decaying logs or in the ground.
J. Scott MacIvor
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Mitochondrial genome of the mason bee, Osmia pedicornis (Hymenopetra: Megachilidae)
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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A survey on Megachilidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) species available in Iranian Pollinator Insects Museum of Yasouj University [PDF]
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2021 In this study, the distribution of 88 species of the family Megachilidae, out of 3678 specimens in the Iranian Pollinator Insects Museum of Yasouj University (IPIM), which were collected in spring and summer 2009–2017 from different regions of Iran ...
Marjan Zakikhani +3 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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Catálogo de los Megachilidae del Mediterráneo occidental (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). I. Osmiini
Graellsia, 2006 El catálogo objeto de este trabajo es una primera entrega de una serie de tres que los autores han realizado sobre la familia Megachilidae en el área mediterránea occidental, como base de la revisión que se está llevando a cabo sobre los megaquílidos ...
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