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sweat bee

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sweat bee
n.
Any of various small, ground-nesting bees of the family Halictidae that are attracted to perspiration.


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To complicate matters, there is mounting evidence that native bees (bumblebees, alkali bees, mason bees, carpenter bees, sweat bees, etc) and other pollinators like moths, butterflies, bats and humming birds are also in steep decline.
won for her investigation of the evolutionary relationships between several species of sweat bees and the species of nematodes that live in the bees but do not harm them.
Byline: ANI Washington, April 21 (ANI): A new research on mutually beneficial cleaning relationships in animals, takes the example of mites, who occupy the nests of tropical sweat bees where they keep fungi in check, a live in relationship that helps the young ones of the buzzers to stay healthy.
 
 
 
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