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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Chicago Illinois USA
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Megachile - leaf-cutter bee
At bug Guide a picture of a leaf cutter bee showing pollen over the abdomen underside. If you have seen a bee walking fast in a circular motion on the blossom and wondered what it was doing? Gathering pollen on the hairs on its legs and belly. No leg pouches on some bees.This makes them very efficient pollinators on plants with many disk flowers like sunflowers and coneflowers and aster and such (composits).They can spin around on all those anthers sticking up full of pollen . Megachile? - Megachile centuncularis - BugGuide.Net A very cool video of a leafcutter bee cutting the circle of leaf then placing into nest. Arkive has great stuff. ARKive - Megachile leaf-cutter bee video - Megachile centuncularis - 00 About composites. http://www.backyardnature.net/fl_comps.htm Quote:
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Northeastern MA
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Sweat bee nests sights are interesting. Has anyone spotted a digger bee hole?
In one video the camera person pulls back so that you can see how small the entrance hole can be. In the other the dirt is piling high so several bees must be sharing and entrance creating a regular colony in there. Each with its own apartment condo style...lol |
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Megachilidae
osmia blue Orchad mason bee Blue Orchard Mason Bee, Osmia lignaria - Apiculture ? Bees and Pollinators ? BC Ministry of Agriculture Quote:
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Join Date: May 2010
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On a somewhat unrealated note: It seems all of these bee information sheets I've been reading imply that females make the world go round and that males have one purpose and then become loafers. I'm getting a complex ![]() This information on top of the fact that the AP senior English class I'll be teaching in the fall has 17 girls and 3 boys signed up. Now, these are the brightest and most achievement oriented kids in the school ![]() What with the male of the game, lately??????
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Give it time, it may take a couple of years for the bees to find your house but they will. You could buy mason bees but who knows where they came from and what they carry.
Do you have a nearby source of mud for the bees to use? Go check out a science or math class and see if the boy wonders are there. My son and now grandson excelled in those subjects. My son was never into literature. First year of high school in his advance english class the teacher told me she thought he was out of his league because he was very quiet and did not participate. I showed her his grades in all other classes plus tests results to get into the school. She kept him in the class and pushed his butt to join in class discussions. It worked and his grades improved but he was still always a math geek. |
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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LOL!
Just keep in mind that there are a few males that take care of their young--seahorses and bettas come to mind. So, we're not *all* bad... ....just most of us?!? Quote:
Glad to see you are a bit humbled...but don't let it become a complex!
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I've known this about the gender issue in the schools for awhile, but it was only after I became interested in insects that I realized the female of the species is usually the important player, with the male simple the sperm provider... ![]()
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Jack, I agree with you completely about reading and comprehending difficult material and today my son would as well. Which is why I was glad she did not recommend sending him back to a regular english class but instead took steps to encourage his interest.
But don't disparage the male's role in the insect world. All energy goes toward reproduction. Laying eggs or fertilizing them its all the same goal. Unfertilized eggs are always male. After mating the female can determine which eggs are fertilized therefor determining the sex of the egg. Male female neither role is subordinate in importance to the other. |
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