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The giant bee house may also attract leafcutter bees.

Today, the alfalfa leafcutter bee is increasingly used to circumvent these problems.

- Leafcutter bees are 6-16mm long and mostly black with bands of light-coloured hair.

A hard-working leafcutter bee may not spot lurking spiders.

The leafcutter bee Lithurgus apicalis has been observed to pollinate the flowers.

The genus Megachile is a cosmopolitan group of solitary bees, often called leafcutter bees.

The leafcutter bee, named after its habit of cutting neat, rounded circles in rose leaves, used to seal the entrance to its nest, is native.

Colorado State University "Extension" - Leafcutter Bees no. 5.

One type of leafcutter bee which may prove unpopular with gardeners has a preference for lining its nest with pieces of rose leaf.

According to the US Agricultural Research Service, one alfalfa leafcutter bee can do the job of 20 honeybees.

Today, research is ongoing in the use of an alternative pollinator, the alfalfa leafcutter bee for alfalfa seed pollination.

The alfalfa leafcutter bee is an important pollinator for alfalfa seed in western United States and Canada.

The leafcutter bees are used in the Pacific Northwest, while western honeybees dominate in California alfalfa seed production.

Among the most common solitary bees in the UK are red mason bees, leafcutter bees and mining bees.

The flowers are pollinated by honey bees, bumble bees, and a local native leafcutter bee (Anthidium palliventre).

Female alfalfa leafcutter bees have stingers, but both sexes will use their mandibles as a defensive mechanism, usually only defending themselves when squeezed or antagonized.

North America has many native megachilid species, but alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata) are an imported species used for pollination.

Megachile pluto is a very large Indonesian resin bee (a leafcutter bee that uses resin to make compartments in its nest).

A 1926 British 11-minute short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring Bumble bee, Mason bee and Leafcutter bee.

For instance, honeybees have adapted to steal alfalfa nectar without taking pollen--not so leafcutter bees, which pollinate alfalfa like champs.

It is favored for its low water needs and its abundant flowers which attract pollinators, including honey bees, bumblebees, sweat bees, and leafcutter bees.

Organisms that are currently being used as pollinators in managed pollination are honey bees, bumblebees, alfalfa leafcutter bees, and orchard mason bees.

Effectiveness of the Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee as a pollinator of legume forage crops (ISHS membership required)

Megachile rotundata, the alfalfa leafcutter bee or lucerne leafcutter bee is a European bee that has been introduced to other regions.

Leucospids are generally rarely encountered except in areas where their hosts are abundant; in the United States, the most common species is Leucospis affinis, which attacks nests of leafcutter bees.

The wings of the Western leafcutting bee are clear, while their veins are black.

It is much bigger than other leafcutting bees.

Adult Western leafcutting bees are seen normally from July to August, and live around one year.

Trachusa perdita, the California leafcutting bee, is a species of bee in the Megachilidae family.

Megachile fidelis, the faithful leafcutting bee, is a species of bee in the Megachile genus.

Megachile perihirta, commonly known as the Western leafcutting bee, is a bee in the genus Megachile.

The nests of M. fidelis are created in almost exactly the same fashion as, M. perihirta, the Western Leafcutting Bee.

Western Leafcutting Bee nests are created when a small group of bees work together to dig small burrows in sand, gravel, soil, or in rotting plants or wood.

Like most bees, adult western leafcutting bees drink nectar, whilst Western leafcutting bee larva feed both on nectar and pollen.

Notable are the Giant Coconut Grasshopper (Pseudophyllanax imperialis) and other endemic insects including an ant (Cerapachys cohici), a cicada Kanakia typica, a damselfly Caledopteryx maculata a longhorned beetle Buprestomorpha montrouzieri, a phasmid Gigantophasma bicolor and a leafcutting bee Eutricharaea australis.

They have arolia between their claws, unlike Megachile or Anthidium species.

The genus Megachile is a cosmopolitan group of solitary bees, often called leafcutter bees.

Coelioxys is a brood parasites of Megachile.

Chalicodoma is a subgenus of the bee genus Megachile in family Megachilidae.

Oca flowers are pollinated by insects (e.g., genera Apis, Megachile, and Bombus).

The plant is pollinated by native Megachile bees and native bumble bees (i.e. Bombus sp.)

Leaf Cutting Bee (Order Hymenoptera : Family Megachilidae) Megachile spp.

Megachile perihirta, commonly known as the Western leafcutting bee, is a bee in the genus Megachile.

North America has many native Megachile species, though the imported alfalfa leafcutter bee (Megachile rotundata) is the only truly important species used for pollination.

Numerous families of wasps and bees will parasitize Megachile nests, most notably including Gasteruptiidae, Leucospidae, Sapygidae, and various cleptoparasitic Megachilids, including the closely related genus Coelioxys.

Bardsey Island Trust : 'Natural History' Retrieved 2009-08-16 The megachile, named after its habit of cutting neat, rounded circles in rose leaves, used to seal the entrance to its nest, is native.

While other genera within the family Megachilidae may chew leaves or petals into fragments to build their nests, certain species within Megachile neatly cut pieces of leaves or petals, hence their common name.

C. reginae reproduces sexually, dependent on the intricate relationship between naive syphid flies, beetles and Megachile bees, where the pollinator will pass under the pollen-bearing anthers prior to the female pistil while exiting, only to discover that there was little to no reward for entering the pouch.

At the larval stage, these beetles are parasites of bees (hence the name "apiarius"), as the adults lay the eggs in the nests of solitary bees (Osmia and Megachile species) or in hives of honey bees, eating larvae and nymphs of their victims.