7/23/2023 0 Comments Black and white striped beeThey nest primarily in pre-formed tubular cavities (tunnels of woodboring beetles, hollow plant stems, and even abandoned snail shells) using a wide variety of materials collected from the environment, including leaf and flower pieces, masticated leaves, mud, resin, plant hairs, and pebbles to construct brood chambers for their young. They are the architects of the bee world. The family Megachilidae is a large and diverse group of bees. MEGACHILIDAE (Leafcutting, Mason, Cotton Bees) Additional rare genera include Centris, Exomalopsis, Epeolus (rare cuckoo genera). Some of the genera within this family include: Apis, Bombus, Diadasia, Melissodes, Svastra, Eucera, Peponapis, Anthophora, Habropoda, Xylocopa, Ceratina. Cuckoo genera within the family include Nomada, and Triepeolus (see Cuckoo Bees). Many of the bees in this family are large, rather chunky and stout in shape, but there are always exceptions, like Ceratina, which are very small and slender. Apidae also contains many wasp-like bees that make their living at the expense of other bees by invading and parasitizing their brood nests (see Cuckoo Bees). It contains a diverse array of digger bees, most of which nest in the soil, carpenter bees, which nest in soft wood or pithy stems, B umble and honey bees, which nest in large cavities or hives, are social, and have distinctive pollen baskets ( corbicula) on their legs. ![]() The family Apidae is a large and very diverse group of bees. APIDAE (Cuckoo, Digger, Carpenter, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
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