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2020
Besides the wind, insects are the main pollinating agents and many of them are hymenopterans. However, among the 20,000 species of bees (Superfamily Apoidea), only a very restricted group has been domesticated for commercial crop pollination, including social and solitary species. The honey bee Apis mellifera L.
Maccagnani B., Sgolastra F.
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Besides the wind, insects are the main pollinating agents and many of them are hymenopterans. However, among the 20,000 species of bees (Superfamily Apoidea), only a very restricted group has been domesticated for commercial crop pollination, including social and solitary species. The honey bee Apis mellifera L.
Maccagnani B., Sgolastra F.
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Laboratory rearing of solitary bees and wasps
Insect Science, 2015AbstractEcological experiments often require standardized methods that exclude natural variation and allow manipulation of a single parameter. It has been shown that domesticated honey bee larvae are raisable in a controlled environment. Here we demonstrate that this approach is also transferable to wild solitary bees and wasps without inducing ...
Mira C, Becker, Alexander, Keller
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Commentary: Solitary behavior in social bees
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1996Professor George Eickwort was killed in an automobile accident on 11 July 1994 (see Wcislo et al. 1994). The preceding manuscript (Eickwort et al. 1996) was essentially complete, except for revisions, up-dating references, and related editorial matters.
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Allozyme Variation in a Solitary Sweat Bee
Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), 1994Our present understanding of the population structure and biology of Nomia triangulifera, a solitary halictine sweat bee, suggests that genetic variability should exist, however we determined that eight allozyme loci were monomorphic both within a nesting site and among five discrete populations.
E. William Schweiger +2 more
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Native and Solitary Bees in Virginia
2021A fact sheet on the many native and solitary bees found in Virginia.
Dellinger, Theresa A., Dary, Eric R.
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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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The Bee Brick: building habitat for solitary bees
International Journal of Sustainable Design, 2022Kate Christman +2 more
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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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Native and Solitary Bees In Virginia [PDF]
, 2016 This home pest fact sheet describes the plants attacked, description of damage, identification, life cycle, control and remarks on the native and solitary bees In Virginia, Apidae.
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