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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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Development and emergence of the orchard pollinator Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).
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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.
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2005), the xylocopine Ceratina calcarata (Rehan and Richards, 2010), and the megachilids Osmia rufa (Seidelmann, 2006; Seidelmann et al.
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Additional frequent visitors to blowout penstemon flowers, thought to be the common pollinators of Penstemon, include four species of megachilid bees (Hoplitis pilosifrons Cresson, Osmia cyaneonitens Cockerell, O.
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Working on multiple floral visitors, Adler and Irwin [26] observed that Xylocopa, Osmia and Habropoda carried the most Gelsemium sempervirens (Carolina jessamine; Loganiaceae) pollen, followed by Bombus and Apis.
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They then fed the pollen to larvae of two closely related generalist species of mason bee (Osmia bicornis and Osmia cornuta) to see how well the larvae developed.
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He says species of pastured pollinators could include, for example, the blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria.
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One highly diverse bee group that was attracted to both plant types in the spring was the Megachilidae, especially members of the genera Megachile and Osmia.
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Scaling up production is also Cane's challenge in working with a related bee, Osmia aglaia.
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One, a leaf-cutter bee in the genus Osmia, is in the same family (Megachilidae) as the Anthidium bee and has similar traits.
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A 56-year-old Hispanic man with a recent history of myocardial infarction was referred to the otolaryngology service with a 3-month history of bilateral nasal obstruction and an osmia that had not responded to medical therapy.
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They do this even though these commonplaces are denied in their productions, as in Osmia.
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