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Euglossa dilemma, the green orchid bee or dilemma orchid bee, is a species of solitary euglossine bee native to a broad area of Central America, and recently introduced to Florida in the United States.
Hesperapis oraria, or Gulf Coast solitary bee is a rare species of bee in the family Melittidae. [2] It was first described in 1997. [1] The bee's current known range is on the barrier islands and coastal mainland secondary dunes on the Gulf Coast of the United States in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi.
Some southern U.S. beekeepers keep bees primarily to raise queens and package bees for sale. Northern beekeepers can buy early spring queens and 3- or 4-pound packages of live worker bees from the South to replenish hives that die out during the winter, although this is becoming less practical due to the spread of the Africanized bee.
Replacing hives is expensive for commercial beekeepers like Lake County’s Sweet Bee Co., which has 1,500 colonies. New queen alone costs $30. Florida beekeepers feel the sting from dead bees ...
Osmia calaminthae, commonly known as the blue calamintha bee, is a rare species of mason bee known only from two small areas in Florida, United States. It is considered Critically Imperiled by NatureServe. The common name for the bee is derived from its distinctly blue color and its favored host plant, Calamintha ashei.
There are few instances of financials losses to beekeepers due to depredations of bee killers such as M. bomboides, but Florida is one of a few states where such losses have been reported as noteworthy. [14] Little Lake City experienced an attack of over hundreds of these insects against bee hives in July 2008. [8]
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