Anthophora

Nontraditional species of Apis as well as other members of the bee family (such as Anthophora, Bombus, Megachilae, Nomia,

35 Bees 1991

The insects proved to be the hairy-footed flower bee, Anthophora plumipes.

Country Diary: Blissford, New Forest 2011

This insect lays its eggs at the entrance of the underground passages dug by a kind of bee, the Anthophora.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

Its larva, after long waiting, springs upon the male Anthophora as it goes out of the passage, clings to it, and remains attached until the "nuptial flight," when it seizes the opportunity to pass from the male to the female, and quietly waits until it lays its eggs.

Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900

Mason bee: and Melecta infests the cells of Anthophora.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

The smallest parasite, belonging to the genus Anthophorabia, so called from being first known as a parasite on another bee (Anthophora), is a minute species found also abundantly in the tight cells of the Leaf-cutter bee.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

In this implacable struggle of devourers and devoured, of pillagers and pillaged, of robbers and robbed, the Melecta deserves no more than we the title of ignoble; in ruining the Anthophora, she is but imitating man in one detail, man who is the infinite source of destruction.

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Have I not seen the Anthophora-bee, at the door to her dwelling, stand a little to one side and make room for the Melecta to enter the honey-stocked cells and substitute her family for the unhappy parent's?

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

An Osmia, an Anthophora, a Chalicodoma had better be careful not to poke an indiscreet head in at her neighbour's door: a sound drubbing would soon recall her to a sense of the proprieties.

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Mason-bee (see also the Anthophora and the varieties below).

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869