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Bees are a very important part of the process, as there are more than 1,500 species of Andrena bees on earth, making it one of the biggest genera of animals in the world.
Looking at the wider species, there are over 1,500 species of Andrena bees in the world, making it one of the largest genera of animals on the planet.
Andrena androfovea is a member of the hyperdiverse genus Andrena, which contains approximately 1700 described species.The specific epithet "androfovea" is a combination of the words "Andrena" and "fovea", in reference to the punctation present on the male bee's head, a rare trait in North American members of the genus.
Three new species of luminescent bees have been discovered in California and Arizona, according to a paper published Jan. 25 in Zootaxa.. The paper cites their “unusual metallic reflections ...
The Africanized bee, also known as the Africanized honey bee (AHB) and colloquially as the "killer bee", is a hybrid of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera), produced originally by crossbreeding of the East African lowland honey bee (A. m. scutellata) with various European honey bee subspecies such as the Italian honey bee (A. m. ligustica) and the Iberian honey bee (A. m. iberiensis).
Male orchid bees are specialised to visit particular species of neotropical orchid. This is a mutualistic arrangement in which the male bee benefits from gathering the fragrance ingredients supplied by the flower which he stores in his hollow hind legs, and the orchid benefits by being pollinated. [1] The male uses the fragrances during courtship.
For comparison, North America has fewer than 500 mammal species. But what scientists know so far skews toward bigger species that are easier to observe and identify. Thousands of small bee species ...
Anthidium oblongatum, the oblong woolcarder bee, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter, carder, or mason bees. [2] [3] It is native to Eurasia and north Africa, and has also been introduced to North America. [4] [5]