Megachile

Leaf-cutting bees (Megachile spp.), mason bees (Osmia spp), honeybees and flies are the main pollinators in the tropics.

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The Megachile lays its eggs in burrows in the stems of the elder (Fig. 24), which we have received from Mr. James Angus; we have also found them in the hollows of the locust tree.

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

The interesting habits of the Leaf-cutting, or Tailor bee (Megachile), have always attracted attention.

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

The Leaf-cutter bee (Megachile) may be seen flying about with pieces of rose-leaf, with which she builds, for a period of twenty days, her cells, often thirty in number, using for this purpose, according to Mr.F. W. Putnam's estimate, [32] at least one thousand pieces!

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

In like manner another Cuckoo bee (Coelioxys) is parasitic on Megachile and Saropoda; Stelis is a parasite on Osmia, the

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

The figures of the early stages of a minute ichneumon represented on the same plate (Fig. 7, larva, and 7_a_, pupa, of Anthophorabia megachilis) which is parasitic on Megachile, the Leaf-cutter bee, illustrates the transformations of the Ichneumon flies, the smallest species of which yet known (and we believe the smallest insect known at all) is the

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

The larva (Fig. 23) is longer than that of Megachile, and compared with that of Xylocopa, the different segments are much more convex, giving a serrate outline to the back of the worm.

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

A like prosperity awaits her when she usurps the provisions of Megachile sericans.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Snail-shells, the Anthidium of the brambles, the Megachile or doubtless many others, the Burnt Zonitis is still the Burnt Zonitis.

More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

On the other hand, we can quite easily, without arming the eye with a lens, perceive the mouth-apparatus -- and particularly the mandibles -- of either a honey-eater, such as an Osmia, Chalicodoma or Megachile, or

The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869