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Ruhuna Journal of Science, 2022 Calotropis gigantea (Giant milkweed) is a medicinal plant native to a few Asian countries including Sri Lanka. However, the plant is considered invasive in countries such as Australia, the USA and Brazil.
W.P.S.N. Wijeweera +3 more
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Diversitas Journal, 2023 Atualmente, o Brasil é considerado o maior produtor de maracujá-amarelo do mundo. A polinização do maracujazeiro é efetivada unicamente pela abelha do gênero (Xylocopa spp.), mais conhecida por mamangava, mangangá ou vespa-de-rodeio.
Juliana Dantas dos Santos, K. S. Bezerra
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Electronic 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
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Pollination of Sedirea japonica (Orchidaceae) by Bombus diversus diversus (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
European Journal of Entomology, 2013 There are no records of the pollinators of many orchids even though the Orchidaceae are often cited as the example of an intimate relationship between plants and their pollinators.
Kenji SUETSUGU, Koji TANAKA
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A record of bilateral gynandromorphism in Epeolus (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Nomadinae) [PDF]
, 2018 The discovery of a gynandromorph of a North American Epeolus Latreille is reported. A specimen of E. flavofasciatus Smith from Flagstaff, Arizona, USA discovered in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) exhibits male-specific ...
Onuferko, Thomas M
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Venom composition and pain-causing toxins of the Australian great carpenter bee Xylocopa aruana
Scientific Reports, 2022 Most species of bee are capable of delivering a defensive sting which is often painful. A solitary lifestyle is the ancestral state of bees and most extant species are solitary, but information on bee venoms comes predominantly from studies on eusocial ...
Naiqi Shi +9 more
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Preliminary checklist of the bees of St. Eustatius, Lesser Antilles (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) [PDF]
, 2013 We present a preliminary checklist of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) compiled for St. Eustatius, an island located in the Lesser Antilles of the eastern Caribbean. The list has nine species, including six that have not been previously documented
Bush, Stephen P., Madden, Hannah
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Polarized iridescence of the tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes
Journal of Comparative Physiology, 2022 The tropical carpenter bee, Xylocopa latipes , has metallic-reflecting, iridescent wings. The wing reflectance spectra for TE- and TM-polarized light depend on the angle of light incidence in a way characteristic for dielectric multilayers.
D. Stavenga, K. Kats, H. Leertouwer
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Bulletin de la Société entomologique de France, 2022 On the presence of Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) pubescens Spinola, 1838, in metropolitan France (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Xylocopa (Koptortosoma) pubescens Spinola, 1838, species native to Africa and the Middle East, is recorded for the first time in ...
Romain Le Divelec +3 more
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Multifunctional Bracts in the Dove Tree Davidia involucrata (Nyssaceae:Cornales) [PDF]
, 2008 Although there has been much experimental work on floral traits that are under selection from mutualists and antagonists, selection by abiotic environmental factors on flowers has been largely ignored.
Gong, Yan-Bing +3 more
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