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Seasonal Variation in Flower Traits, Visitor Traits, and Reproductive Success of Solanum sisymbriifolium Lamarck (Solanaceae) in the Rarh Region of West Bengal, India [PDF]

open access: yesBiology
The wild tomato (Solanum sisymbriifolium) is a globally distributed shrubby weed with both negative and positive impacts, including its invasive properties and the potential for pharmaceutical and traditional medicinal uses.
Ujjwal Layek   +4 more
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Symbiosis of Carpenter Bees with Uncharacterized Lactic Acid Bacteria Showing NAD Auxotrophy

open access: yesMicrobiology Spectrum, 2023
Eusocial bees (such as honey bees and bumble bees) harbor core gut microbiomes that are transmitted through social interaction between nestmates. Carpenter bees are not eusocial; however, recent microbiome analyses found that Xylocopa species harbor ...
Shinji Kawasaki   +7 more
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Bees of genera Ceratina Latreille, 1802 and Xylocopa Latreille, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophoridae) of Azerbaijan [PDF]

open access: yesКавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2010
Faunistic review of the genus Ceratina Latreille, 1802 (10 spesies) and the genus Xylocopa Latreille, 1802 (5 spesies) from Azerbaijan is presented. Ceratina cucurbitina (Rossi, 1792), C. nigrolabiata Friese, 1806, C.
Kh.A. Aliyev, V.P. Qamarli
doaj   +1 more source

Pigmentary colouration of hairy carpenter bees, genus Xylocopa

open access: yesSCIENCE NATURE, 2023
Carpenter bees can display distinct colouration patterns due to structural coloured wings and/or coloured hairs on their bodies. Females of the sexually dichromatic Xylocopa caerulea are marked by strongly blue-pigmented hairs on the head, thorax and ...
D. Stavenga
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evidence for multiple mating by female eastern carpenter bees, Xylocopa virginica (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

open access: yesCanadian Entomologist, 2023
Relatedness within groups is influenced by the mating patterns of founders: the more parents that contribute to a group, the lower the relatedness of their offspring.
Lyndon B. Duff   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Identification and Morphological Description of Xylocopa species (Xylocopidae: Hymenoptera) in North East of Libya

open access: yesمجلة المختار للعلوم, 2019
The paper aimed to identify and describe the taxonomic morphological structure of Xylocopa species in North Eastern Libya. The samples were collected from different natural sites of Aljabal Alakhder region, identified, and morphological description and ...
Marwa Y. H. Elmabruk, Ali A. Bataw
doaj   +1 more source

The Recent Spread of the Carpenter Bee Xylocopa pubescens (Hymenoptera, Apidae) in Europe, and First Record for the Aegean Archipelago

open access: yesSociobiology, 2023
The African species Xylocopa pubescens Spinola (Hymenoptera, Apidae) has recently stabilized in some European countries such as Cyprus, Greece, and Spain.
R. Catania
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Studies on diversity, abundance and pollination efficiency of insect pollinators and pollination mechanism involved in sunnhemp (Crotalaria juncea L.)

open access: yesElectronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2019
Biodiversity of insect pollinator’s species visiting sunnhemp crop was studied in TNAU Coimbatore, India. Fifteen insect species belonging to four orders were recorded from sunnhemp flowers, of which nine belongs to order Hymenoptera, two to ...
S.R. Rakesh   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Carpenter Bees (Xylocopa) Harbor a Distinctive Gut Microbiome Related to That of Honey Bees and Bumble Bees

open access: yesApplied and Environmental Microbiology, 2022
Gut microbiomes from social bees, such as honey bees and bumble bees, are conserved and consist of host-restricted bacteria that are transmitted among sterile female workers within a colony and that are important to the health of these key insect ...
Jo-anne C. Holley   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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