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mason bee

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Any of various solitary bees of the family Megachilidae that build nests from mud, chewed leaves, or resin.

mason bee

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(Animals) any bee of the family Megachilidae that builds a hard domelike nest of sand, clay, etc, held together with saliva
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Noun1.mason bee - any of numerous solitary bees that build nests of hardened mud and sandmason bee - any of numerous solitary bees that build nests of hardened mud and sand
bee - any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species
family Megachilidae, Megachilidae - leaf-cutting and mason bees
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Ceratina hieroglyphica, Halictus subauratus, Osmia caerulescens were reported first time from Pakistan.
Pollination Deficit in Apple Orchards at Murree, Pakistan
Nesting activity and behavior of Osmia cornifrons (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) elucidated using videography.
Behavioral repertoires and interactions between Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and the native bee Lithurgus littoralis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in flowers of Opuntia huajuapensis (Cactaceae) in the Tehuacan desert
Before beginning this lesson, research should be completed to ensure that a species of mason bee or Osmia is present in the local community so students can help that bee population grow.
Mason bee habitations: teaching proper "making" skills through authentic engineering design contexts
Nesting site density and distribution affects Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) reproductive success and almond yield in a commercial orchard.
Yield in almond is related more to the abundance of flowers than the relative number of flowers that set fruit
Most of the bees collected in this study were megachilids, including Osmia lignaria, a native bee that builds nest partitions from macerated mud (Bosch, 1994); Anthidium maculosum, a small native bee that lines its nest cells with plant trichomes (Alcock et al.
The phenology and spatial distribution of cavity-nesting hymenoptera and their parasitoids in a California Oak-Chaparral landscape mosaic
lapidarius, Megachile rotundata y Osmia lignaria) han demostrado que la sensibilidad a los insecticidas puede variar dependiendo de la especie de abeja (Thompson, 2001, Scott-Dupree, Conroy, & Harris, 2009).
Efecto letal agudo de los insecticidas en formulacion comercial imidacloprid, spinosad y thiocyclam hidrogenoxalato en obreras de bombus atratus (hymenoptera: apidae)
Work on the pollinating biology of Osmia (Chalcosmia) carulescens Linne (Hymenoptera; Megachilidae) in relation to alfalfa (Medicago sativa Linne) should be mentioned [27].
Influence of the absence of irrigation water on the arthropod complex in a lucerne (Medicago sativa Linne) in Mitidja (Algeria)
The activity of amylase in Osmia bicornis was increased when it treated with methoprene (insect growth regulators) [35].
Biochemical and toxic characterization of some insect growth regulators to the pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella (Saunders)
Also, the Swedish study found that wild Osmia bicornis bees nested at six of the eight untreated sites but at none of the treated ones.
Bees can't avoid neonicotinoids: new tests find pesticides impair some pollinators
Rust, 2001, "A Phylogenetic Analysis of Nesting Behavior in the Genus Osmia (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)", Annals of the Entomological Society of America, vol.
Funciones y homologia funcional en las ciencias cognitivas
2005), the xylocopine Ceratina calcarata (Rehan and Richards, 2010), and the megachilids Osmia rufa (Seidelmann, 2006; Seidelmann et al.
Role of body size in the competition for mates by males of Centris pallida (Anthophorinae: Hymenoptera)
Raw A (1976) The behaviour of males of the solitary bee Osmia rufa (Megachilidae) searching for females.
Sleeping aggregations of bees in relation to the risk of fire at their roosting sites in a forested, suburban landscape in eastern Australia

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