Xylocopa


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Related to Xylocopa: Xylocopa violacea
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Noun1.Xylocopa - carpenter beesXylocopa - carpenter bees      
genus Xylocopa
arthropod genus - a genus of arthropods
Apidae, family Apidae - honeybees; carpenter bees; bumblebees
carpenter bee - large solitary bee that lays eggs in tunnels bored into wood or plant stems
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Kugler (1980) reported that over 38% of insect visitors on flowers were Bombus hortorum, nearly 20% were Xylocopa violaceae, 9% Amegilla quadrifasciata and 6% Apis mellifera.
Ecology and Use of Lantana camara in India
Occupation of active Xylocopa virginica nests by the recently invasive Megachile sculpturalis in upstate New York.
Range extension of Megachile lanata (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), a non-native sunn hemp pollinator, in Florida
Tipos de polinizacao e pastejo de abelhas Xylocopa spp.na frutificacao e qualidade dos frutos de maracujazeiro.
Yellow passion fruit postharvest conservation and quality according to organic and mineral fertilizers/Conservacao pos-colheita e qualidade dos frutos de maracujazeiro-amarelo de acordo com a adubacao organica e mineral
mellifera y Xylocopa augusti Lepeletier de Saint Fargeau (Telleria, 1995; 1999; Basilio, 2000; Lucia, Telleria, Ramello, & Abrahamovich, 2017).
Recurso polinifero utilizado por Apis mellifera (Himenoptera: Apidae) en un area de bosque subtropical del noroeste de Argentina
dorsata, Amegilla cingulata and Xylocopa sp.), one species each from Halictidae (Halictus sp.), Ichneumonidae (Ichneumon sp.) and Sphecidae (Sphex sp.) were found on B.
Diversity and Relative Abundance of Pollinator Fauna of Canola (Brassica napus L. Var Chakwal Sarsoon) with Managed Apis mellifera L. in Pothwar Region, Gujar Khan, Pakistan
2 Xylocopacalens 38 Xylocopa flavorufa 6 Xylocopa incostans 11 Xylocopa torridium 2 Xylocopa (xylomellisosp.
Distance Effects on Diversity and Abundance of the Flower Visitors of Ocimum kilimandscharicum in the Kakamega Forest Ecosystem. (Research Article)
On the other hand, Xylocopa fenestrata could do so in just its two consecutive visits, thus having an edge over the other three pollinators of the bath sponge.
Some Unresolved Issues of Measuring the Efficiency of Pollinators: Experimentally Testing and Assessing the Predictive Power of Different Methods
Bumble bees (Bombus spp.), the eastern carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica L.), several species of halictids, the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.), the mining bee (Svastra atripes Cresson), and the leaf-cutter bee (Megachile brevis Say) were found to be common visitors of partridge pea flowers (Robertson, 1890; Hardin et al., 1972; Thorp and Estes, 1975; Wolfe and Estes, 1992; Williams et at, 2015).
Bee Contribution to Partridge Pea (Chamaecrista fasciculata) Pollination in Florida
Floral sonication by bees: mesosomal vibration by Bombus and Xylocopa, but not Apis (Hymenoptera: Apidae), ejects pollen from poricidal anthers.
High species richness of native pollinators in Brazilian tomato crops/ Alta riqueza de especies de polinizadores nativos em plantacoes Brasileiras de tomateiro
Outras abelhas como as dos generos Xylocopa e Exomalopsis atuaram tambem como agente polinizadores pois, ao coletarem o polen, tocavam nas estruturas reprodutivas favorecendo a polinizacao.
Biologia floral e sistema reprodutivo de Campomanesia adamantium (Cambess.) O. Berg--Myrtaceae em area de Cerrado no Sul do Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil

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