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Solitary bees, such as M. campanulae, do not form colonies. While social insects (ants, yellow jackets, honeybees) work in colonies, leafcutter and resin bees work independently building nests. [11] Similar to honeybees, female bees perform nearly all essential tasks of brood rearing.
Andrena prunorum, otherwise known as the purple miner bee, is a species of solitary bees in the family Andrenidae. [1] It is commonly found in the continental United States as well as much of North and Central America. [2] [3] Andrena prunorum is a spring-flying, ground-nesting bee that serves as a ubiquitous generalist in ecological settings ...
A leaf-cutter bee showing abdominal scopa. Megachilidae is a cosmopolitan family of mostly solitary bees.Characteristic traits of this family are the restriction of their pollen-carrying structure (called a scopa) to the ventral surface of the abdomen (rather than mostly or exclusively on the hind legs as in other bee families), and their typically elongated labrum. [1]
These "solitary" bees form small aggregations of nests in loose sandy soil, even nesting between paving stones in gardens. Unlike other bees in the genus Andrena , the presence of the specialized cleptoparasitic bee from the genus Sphecodes , namely Sphecodes pellucidus often alerts the observer to the presence of its host as it digs into the ...
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.
Carpenter bees sometimes are mistaken for bumble bees, which have a similar appearance. A carpenter bee is about ¾ to 1-inch long and nest in excavated tunnels in wood.
Northern colletes are solitary bees, though females may nest in what are termed aggregations – sites where the bees nest close together, but do not form colonies as social bees do. [1] They nest underground in soft (often sandy) soil, digging burrows up to 20 times their body length. [ 2 ]
Bees that undergo diapause and emerge in the spring must endure the long winter, so require more food stores. As a result, they will be larger when they mature. Another explanation has been that smaller bees mature faster, thus are able to mate more quickly when they emerge in the summer to avoid the cold, harsh conditions of the winter.