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2. Osmia californica - Wikipedia

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   Osmia californica is a megachilid bee, or mason bee. Native to North America, the mason bees are important pollinators, with O. california pollinating over 33 genera from 13 plant families. [1] O. californica generally emerges a little later in the spring than the better known orchard mason bee (O. lignaria).

3. Mason bee - Wikipedia

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   Mason bee is a name now commonly used for species of bees in the genus Osmia, of the family Megachilidae.Mason bees are named for their habit of using mud or other "masonry" products in constructing their nests, which are made in naturally occurring gaps such as between cracks in stones or other small dark cavities.

4. Osmia lignaria - Wikipedia

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   Osmia lignaria, commonly known as the orchard mason bee or blue orchard bee, [1] is a megachilid bee that makes nests in natural holes and reeds, creating individual cells for its brood that are separated by mud dividers.

5. Mason Bees, Far from Destructive, Are Great for a Garden - AOL

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   Unlike social bees, such as honey bees, they’re solitary. “Mason bees build their nests in pre-existing cavities, such as holes in wood, hollow stems, or bee hotels,” says Michael Skvarla ...

6. Megachilidae - Wikipedia

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   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]

7. Dianthidium - Wikipedia

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   Dianthidium is a genus of leafcutter, mason, and resin bees in the family Megachilidae. There are at least 20 described species in Dianthidium. [1] [2] [3]

8. Fruit tree pollination - Wikipedia

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   Increasingly Orchard bees (spring mason bees, genus Osmia) are being used in fruit tree pollination. [7] According to British writer Christopher O'Toole in his book The Red Mason Bee, Osmia rufa is a much more efficient pollinator of orchard crops (in Europe) than honey bees. [8]

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