Agriculture Reference
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Fig. 161
Head of a flower bee - family
Anthophoridae.
of female not forming a corbiculum (cf. Fig.
162).
EXAMPLE:
Anthophora retusa
(a flower bee).
26. Family MEGACHILIDAE
Fig. 162
Left hindleg of a worker bumblebee
family Apidae.
Females (apart from parasitic species) with
pollen-collecting hairs located on the gastral
sternites to form a ventral scopa.
EXAMPLES:
Megachile centuncularis
(common
leaf cutter bee),
Osmia rufa
(mason bee);
the former species often damages rose bushes,
and certain other ornamental plants, by
cutting out leaf segments for use in its brood
chambers.
27. Family APIDAE
Pollen-collecting apparatus (corbiculum) of
female located on the hindleg
(Fig. 162);
tongue
long to very long; compound eyes separated
from the mandibles by distinct cheeks (genae)
(Fig. 163).
Members of this family are typically
social, colony-inhabiting species with a worker
caste.
EXAMPLES:
Apinae -
Apis mellifera
(honey
bee); Bombinae -
Bombus
spp. (bumblebees),
Psithyrus
spp. (cuckoo bumblebees).
Fig. 163
Head of a bumblebee - family Apidae.
