Pollen Specialist Bees. Roughly 25% of the ~770 species of bees native to the Eastern United States are pollen specialists. Pollen specialist bees coevolved a ...

Roughly 35% of the ~3,000 species of bees native to the Western United States are pollen specialists. Pollen specialist bees coevolved a continuum of generic ...

10 мар. 2023 г. · Pollen specialist native bees (females) collect pollen from specific native host plants to feed their larvae.

28 мар. 2022 г. · Specialists are all solitary bees. They don't live very long. Most are ground-nesting. Andrena erigeniae on a Spring Beauty flower.

About one-third of all bee species are pollen specialists, meaning they use pollen only from a narrow range of native plants as food for the developing bee ...

One bee that specializes on a superabundant resource is Dieunomia triangulifera,a specialist bee that visits only sunflower (Helianthus annuus) for pollen.

There are 76 species of native specialist bees that utilize pollen from plants native to Tennessee, and here are their favorite genera.

Our estimated 4,000 native bee species in the United States and Canada fall into one of two categories – pollen generalists and pollen specialists.

3 мар. 2021 г. · Common specialist bees important for crop pollination include squash bees, rose mallow (aka okra or cotton) bees, and southeastern blueberry bees.

Some specialist bees forage for pollen that can only be found on one plant species. These specialist bees emerge from their nests at the same time their host ...