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.

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

28 июн. 2016 г. · Pollinators that collect pollen – and specifically, pollen‐specialist bees – are often considered to be the best pollinators of a (host) ...

Two types of plants that attract specialist bees are squashes, like pumpkins, squash and zucchini (Cucurbita spp.) and sunflowers (Helianthus spp.).

Specialist pollinators are pollinators that get pollen from specific plants. The squash bee is a good example of one.

20 мая 2015 г. · Squash bees are specialist pollinators of cucurbits (squash, cucumbers, pumpkins), and have expanded their native range alongside the ...

Flowers like lavender, hollyhock, cosmos and hellebore are all listed as RHS Plants for Pollinators and will help to feed a range of different bee species.

Specialist bees rely upon just a handful of native plant species, with some bee species dependent upon a single plant species.

Nearly a quarter of the bee species in Vermont are considered specialists, meaning they feed their offspring pollen from a narrow range of plants.

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 ...