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  2. Andrena scotica - Wikipedia

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    Andrena scotica is one of the earlier bees to appear and the flight period is mid March to late June with numbers peaking late April and May. The females are facultative communal nesters with a group of them sharing a common entrance to a burrow in which each female tends her own eggs and larvae within a chamber off the main burrow, constructing brood cells within her tunnel and provisioning ...

  3. Colletes hederae - Wikipedia

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    Like many other solitary bees, they can often be found nesting in dense aggregations, [4] sometimes numbering many tens of thousands of nests. In parts of the west European range of the species, Colletes hederae are frequently parasitized by the larvae of the meloid beetle Stenoria analis , [ 2 ] which feed on the supply of nectar and pollen ...

  4. Andrena - Wikipedia

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    Andrena is a genus of bees in the family Andrenidae.With over 1,500 species, it is one of the largest genera of animals. [2] It is a strongly monophyletic group that is difficult to split into more manageable divisions; [3] [4] currently, Andrena is organized into 104 subgenera. [2]

  5. Colletes - Wikipedia

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    Colletes cuniculariusin nest entrance Colletes phaceliae Colletes compactus Colletes speculiferus Colletes thysanellae. The genus Colletes (plasterer bees or cellophane bees) is a large group of ground-nesting bees of the family Colletidae. They occur primarily in the Northern Hemisphere. They tend to be solitary, but sometimes nest close ...

  6. Ashy mining bee - Wikipedia

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    The ashy mining bee is common and widespread throughout Europe, ranging from Ireland across central Europe and into Scandinavia. They are common throughout the United Kingdom although less frequent in northern Scotland. They prefer to nest in tended lawns, flowerbeds, parkland, calcareous grassland, orchards and on the borders of agricultural land.

  7. Beehive - Wikipedia

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    Painted wooden beehives with active honey bees A honeycomb created inside a wooden beehive. A beehive is an enclosed structure where some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive.

  8. Nomada - Wikipedia

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    The role of male and female cuckoos bees in the parasitism process differs. Before mating, male Nomada will fly locally secreting a scent which mimics the host female. Male cuckoo bees will secrete this scent near host nests to help female Nomada find a nest to deposit eggs. Furthermore, when male and female bees mate, there is evidence that ...

  9. Amegilla dawsoni - Wikipedia

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    Amegilla dawsoni, sometimes called the Dawson's burrowing bee, is a species of bee that nests by the thousands in arid claypans in Western Australia. It is a long tongued bee, of the tribe Anthophorini and genus Amegilla, the second largest genus in Anthophorini.