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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.
Perdita meconis, the Mojave poppy bee, is a rare bee species that was described in 1993. [2] The Mojave poppy bee has been petitioned for protection under the Endangered Species Act due to pressures in their native range such as invasive species, habitat fragmentation, gypsum mining, and climate change. [3] [4]
Tetragonula carbonaria forms honeycombs in their nests. [7] The bee produces an edible honey; the whole nest is sometimes eaten by Indigenous Australians. [8] The bees "mummify" invasive small hive beetles (Aethina tumida) that enter the nest by coating and immobilising the invaders in wax, resin, and mud or soil from the nest. [9]
In an almost barren, treeless basin in Germany, the study found nests of the red-tailed bumblebee as well as two other Bombus species within one hundred meters of each other. Each species had equal resource availability. Researchers marked the foraging bees, with almost 80% of all of the foraging bees eventually marked for study. [8]
Each egg is laid in a different nest of a bird of another species, including some woodpeckers, barbets, kingfishers, bee-eaters, wood hoopoes, starlings, and large swallows. It is common for the female greater honeyguide to break the host's eggs when laying her own. [16] All the species parasitized nest in holes, covered nests, or deep cup nests.
The bees whose nests are exposed to the sun and heat build vestibules more frequently. [16] The material used to build the nests is mud mixed with their mandibles, [18] but the sides of the tunnel in which the nests are located are usually not lined with mud, with the exception of some irregularly arranged nests. [15]
The phoretic larva of the meloid attaches itself to the bee and is carried back to the nest and functions as a nest parasite, where it feeds on provisions collected by the bees. [ 5 ] Hoplomutilla conspecta , a species of parasitoid mutillid wasp , was found in a nest, chewing at closed brood cells, but oviposition was not observed.
It is this behavior that gives B. muscorum the name moss carder bee. [10] [22] It rarely, if ever, crosses sea barriers greater than 10 km to establish a nesting site. Once a nest is established, the bee is notoriously aggressive, readily attacking intruders that are too close to the nest, which they bite and sting simultaneously. [18]