Methods for rearing ground-nesting bees under laboratory conditions

In the second year (April 2008 to April 2009), when cardboard trap-nests were used, 12 swarms were attracted at the Ribeirão Preto campus and only 1 at Aretuzina farm (no swarms

At midday on March 13, 2013, a soil thermometer was repeatedly pushed 5 cm deep into the sunlit moist soil of the aggregation at seven subplot pairs, both amid the pebble mulch and

Trophic interaction and diversity of cavity-nesting bees and wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) in Atlantic forest fragments and in adjacent matrices... Trophic interaction and diversity

The median duration of a nest stay after final oil-collecting trips for provisioning and closing the cell (and presumably ovipositing) was significantly higher than the median

At a period when important progress was made on the chemical nature of the Dufour’s gland contents and cell lining of colletid bees, Batra (1980) conducted a detailed study of

This number was three times higher than that collected at the Parque Municipal das Araucárias, but the total moni- tored area in his study (122 ha of forest frag- ments, natural

Low lifetime fitness and the amount of investment that nest construction entails for a female solitary bee sug- gests that loss of brood to natural enemies must generally be low

Furthermore, the amount of brood cells, total number of adults, and nest length were higher in open areas compared to shrubby and secondary vegetations.. Therefore, our results