Body weight is often used as an estimator of production costs in aculeate Hymenoptera;
however, due to differences between sexes in metabolic rates and water content, conversion …

Wild bees in natural conditions can develop under various environmental stressors. Heavy
metal pollution of the environment is one of the most widely studied stressors in insects, yet …

Cladistic analysis is used to study the evolution of 29 biological characters related to nesting
behavior, nest provisioning, oviposition, cocoon spinning, defecation, and life cycle (nest …

Despite their miniature brains, insects exhibit substantial variation in brain size. Although the
functional significance of this variation is increasingly recognized, research on whether …

Megachile zaptlana is a solitary cavity-nesting leafcutter bee widely distributed in Brazil.
Using two models of trap nests in sugarcane monoculture and agroecosystem environments …

Nests of some cavity-nesting Osmia (Hymenoptera, Megachilidae). Nests of seven Osmia
species (0. cornuta, 0. rufa, O. tricornis, 0. coerulescens, 0. fulviventris, 0. latreillei, and 0 …

The construction of nests to rear offspring is restricted to vertebrates and few insect taxa,
such as termites, wasps, and bees. Among bees, species of the family Megachilidae are …

Monodontomerus aeneus (Fonscolombe) is a parasitic wasp that oviposits on the prepupae
and pupae of Osmia cornuta (Latreille) and other solitary bee species. A two-armed …

Anthodioctes megachiloides Holmberg, 1903 é uma abelha solitária que utiliza cavidades
pré-existentes para construir o ninho. Ninhos armadilhas de madeira foram instalados no …

El cambio en las condiciones ambientales y el grado de perturbación antropogénica afectan
las comunidades de visitadores florales. Así, se identificó y caracterizó la comunidad de …