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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Insects, 2021 Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea and Anthophila) are distributed worldwide and considered the primary pollinators of angiosperm. Megachilidae is one of the largest families of Anthophila.
Dunyuan Huang, Huanhuan Lu
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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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The Most Effective Pollinators Predict Intraspecific Floral Color Diversity Across an Edaphic Matrix. [PDF]
Ecol EvolA generalist‐pollinated plant endemic to rock outcrops recently expanded to weedy roadside meadow populations where it exhibited reduced flower color variation and less pigmented flowers. A relationship between flower color and pollinator community composition, and an especially strong link between color and relative abundance of the most effective ...
Riddle KE +4 more
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Evolution of the α-Glucosidase Gene Family in Apoidea. [PDF]
Ecol EvolThis study traces the origin of the α‐glucosidase gene family in bees back to approximately 140 million years ago, revealing that its evolutionary history closely aligns with the rise of angiosperms and coevolution. Furthermore, by identifying the core members Hbg1–3 and 28 key functional sites driven by positive selection, the study systematically ...
Li J, Wang W, Du Y, Jia J, Wei Z.
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Against the grain: Discovery of wood-nesting reveals hidden substrate flexibility in a major bee lineage. [PDF]
EcologyEcology, Volume 107, Issue 9, September 2026.
Soh ZWW, Ascher JS.
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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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Nesting and Foraging Preferences of Four Sympatric Species of Cavity-Nesting Leafcutting Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) [PDF]
InsectsDai Q +6 more
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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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