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Specialization and Foraging Efficiency of Solitary Bees
Ecology, 1979The specialist bee, Hoplitis anthocopoides, foraged for pollen from Echium vulgare, its preferred plant, more efficiently than did four generalist species. Efficiency was measured as the weight of pollen (the larval food) harvested from Echium flowers per unit handling time, divided by the weight of the discrete pollen mass required to rear one ...
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Do Solitary Bees Count to Five? [PDF]
, 2011 Efficient foragers avoid returning to food sources that they had previously depleted. Bombus terrestris bumblebees use a counting-like strategy to leave Alcea setosa flowers just after visiting all of their five nectaries. We tested whether a similar strategy is employed by solitary Eucera sp. bees that also forage on A. setosa.
Noam Bar-Shai, Tamar Keasar, Avi Shmida
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Solitary Bees and how the Colony began
1954The idea that all forms of life on earth today were created together at the beginning of the world was abandoned some time ago, when scientists found out that animals of comparatively simple structure have, in gradual transition, developed into more and more highly organized forms.
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Low‐intensity management benefits solitary bees in olive groves
Journal of Applied Ecology, 2020Carlos Martínez-Núñez +2 more
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