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DNA barcoding to identify leaf preference of leafcutting bees [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal 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
doaj   +1 more source

Notes on the Nests of \u3ci\u3eAugochloropsis metallica fulgida\u3c/i\u3e and \u3ci\u3eMegachile mucida\u3c/i\u3e in Central Michigan (Hymenoptera: Halictidae, Megachilidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Notes on the nesting biology of two ground-nesting species are provided from Central Michigan. A single nest of Augochloropsis metallica fulgida was excavated on 12 July 2014 in Shiawassee County. There were two female nest inhabitants.
Gibbs, Jason
core   +2 more sources

Body and Wing Allometries Reveal Flight-Fecundity Tradeoff in Response to Larval Provisioning in Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

open access: yesJournal of Insect Science, 2021
Variation in body size has important implications for physical performance and fitness. For insects, adult size and morphology are determined by larval growth and metamorphosis.
B. Helm   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

First record of the invasive bee Anthidium manicatum (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in Chile [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Palearctic wool carder bee Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus) is recorded for the first time in Chile based on eight specimens collected on Lavandula sp. (Lamiaceae) in San Bernardo, Metropolitan Region.
Montalva, Jose Miguel   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Actualisation des connaissances sur l’abeille Megachile sculpturalis SMITH, 1853 en France et en Europe (Hymenoptera : Megachilidae)

open access: yesOsmia, 2021
Update of knowledge on the bee Megachile sculpturalis SMITH, 1853 in France and Europe (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). - Megachile sculpturalis is a bee native to eastern Asia that is now also present in North America and Europe.
Violette Le Féon   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Chicago Area: Diversity and Habitat Use in an Urbanized Landscape [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) were collected at 24 sites chosen to represent the diversity of urban and natural habitats in the Chicago metropolitan area. Species richness was assessed for each site.
Molumby, Alan, Przybylowicz, Tomasz
core   +2 more sources

A revision of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Coelioxys (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from Australia

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Entomology, 2016
The Australian species of the genus Coelioxys Latreille are revised. Six species are recognized: Coelioxys albolineata Cockerell, 1905; Coelioxys froggatti Cockerell, 1911; Coelioxys reginae Cockerell, 1905; Coelioxys weinlandi Schulz, 1904 and two new ...
Léo Correia da ROCHA-FILHO
doaj   +1 more source

The Asian giant resin bee Megachile sculpturalis Smith 1853 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Megachilidae), a new exotic species for the bee fauna of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain)

open access: yes, 2021
Megachile sculpturalis Smith 1853 is found for the first time on the island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). This is the first time that this exotic bee is reported from an island and is the southernmost record in Europe so far.
Elisa Ribas-Marquès   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A gynandromorph of Xylocopa augusti and an unusual record of X. iris from Brazil (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
We describe and illustrate for the first time a mixed gynandromorph of Xylocopa(Neoxylocopa) augusti Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Also, we document and discuss a historical specimen of the Old World carpenter bee X. (Copoxyla)
Gonzalez, Victor H.   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Report of the nest of Megachile (Moureapis) benigna (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from an urban environment, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

open access: yesIheringia: Série Zoologia, 2022
One nest of Megachile (Moureapis) benigna Mitchell, 1930 (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) was collected using trap-nests in a forest fragment (Atlantic Forest biome) into an urban matrix in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in October/2017.
Diego Marinho, Felipe Vivallo
doaj   +1 more source

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