Spring finally arrived in the US, bringing her A bright spectacle of vegetable trees and Migratory birdsWith a more subtle change, but with the same equally important, among them, the first creation of local bees.
But “bee natives” is not really Most of the insects listen to the word “bee”. Yellow and black-striped, intense hive, formally critic for honey Apis mellifera“From the way.” Farmers are basically based on the smallest imports of livestock animals Pollinate food crops and produce honey. But the locals against them are completely different.
– Agapostemon Serizes Prince in George County, found in Maryland. Gender Agapostemon It has a blue or bright blue bee that classified as “sweat bees”, though, though, unlike relatives, they are not attracted to human sweat.
Wayne Boo // Usgs Bee Laboratory via Flickr
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“Take the majority of what you know about the bees,” says Sydney Shumar, the Biologist of the US Geological Survey and Manager. “It doesn’t apply our bees to local friends.” To celebrate Spring, American scientific He talked about Shumar, wedding and the importance of its ecosystem.
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Don’t I have this right that there are more than 4,000 local species of bees in the US? How is this number so great?
Several bees are the reason that are native to them, that you evolve all these little things to pollinate group or plant species. So they have very different features. When you look at the photos of our bees locals, it is completely different than a honey, and the color, size, how they gather and how they are nonsens.
A Melissodes expedited found in Maine. The species has a strong connection to Thistes and can be found between Eastern and Canada in the US and Canada.
Leave Mengis / USGS Bee Lab via Flickr
What are they like, and how do they live?
In North America there is no bees that live in the hive or produce honey. Most live in very small family units, or you can think like an apartment.
“If you go anywhere in the United States, you will find some local bees.” -Sydney Shumar, biologist
None of them creates honey; One of them creates wax; None of them is done Large structures that you would think of honey. Some are stems; Most nest on the ground, so when you walk around the winter, you walk on millions of bees that are nesting on the ground until you reach the time of spring.
Is that true in cities too? Do they have preferences or types of land?
Many of the new bees are specialists, so they do it like a certain type of soil; We have a couple like special sand. You have harmful surfaces in cities and more urban areas, so it will be more difficult for them. But if you have loose soils, if you have local plants, you will probably find the berks of bees.
A Melitta Eickworti Rockingham, VA. The species is a type of bees specializing in the polared deer shrubs.
Erick Hernandez / USGS Bee Laboratory via Flickr
Is there any local bees with our ecosystems, such as deserts or something?
No, we worked in a project in the slices of the slices, and when you think of the slices, you think dry; You do not bloom, arid and researchers captured hundreds of hundreds of bees. If you go anywhere in the United States, you will find some local bees.
Is there a species or group you find especially fresh?
In addition to them? I really like this group called Squash bees. They are medium-sized; They are very cute and juicy. But as you would invent, they are squash specialists. They come out early in the morning; You need to get to the first light. And if you have Squash plants, you will probably be. It is the scientific name of the widest species Peponapis pruinoseAnd, and you usually find that you just relax in the early morning of the morning in the morning.
– Osmia Atrentris In Washington County, Maryland has been found. Species is known as Maine Blueberry Bee, to name a special talent for accessing blueberry pollen. Blueberry Flowers Store behind the special pores that vibrates bees.
Brooke Alexander / USGS Bee Laboratory via Flickr
You mentioned that the Earth’s nest bees are under the whole winter. How is a year in life of a local bee?
It has more than 4,000 species, they will not all come out at the same time. They are very early in the season, when spring first effembers (living plants are only active plants in more than an annual). Marylanden, that’s usually around April. And then you get different flowering, you are pulling out this bee crescendo.
A Bombus rufocinctus Bumblebee Yellowstone was found in the National Park. Species are quite common and can cause many varieties of different color models, such as a red example of this example in this example B. Rufocinctus A common name with black red key.
Colby Francoeur / USGS bee lab via Flickr
Usually you see only a little picture of the life of the bee. The majority of time, bees are small eggs and larvae, and then there are this strange form of underground. And then it’s what we think like bees, and that’s where it comes to find food, find the couple and then continue to follow that cycle again.
Usually a bee is just a month or two. They are brittle, very thin wings; The antennas have very thin, so when you catch one, you can say if there was some time. It’s a bit crooked, and you can say flying around and hitting things and damaging wings. Or if it is very pristine, it is a little cooler than other bees that are created or away.
Sandy housing Augochloropsis expensive Found in Missouri Bootel.
Orr Uan-Tidar and Grace Schilling / USGS Bee Laboratory via Flickr
Larvae and grub phases, do they look very different from adults?
Kelpilike looking more. If you saw one, you certainly wouldn’t guess that a bee larvae. Lots of local bees are very small, but they are not bees. Baby Bees doesn’t think like bees. They don’t have three segmented body; They don’t have six legs; They don’t have wings; They don’t have antenna.
A Bombus Related Racine’s queen, found in Wis. It was made in 1965 by the historic grain, to endanger the so-called drained roar before the hardened population.
With honey, we only see females. Is it the same thing with local bees?
With special bee, there are rarely queen-snake are exception.
But there are males and females. Usually you find more females than men, but you don’t have queens or (males) drones or differences, if you don’t talk about whirlpools. In general, most women and men differ within the same species. Under the microscope, for men, you usually have a little more coloring in the face or overall more coloring. And then the antenna stay longer compared to women. And then it is the greatest part of all, as well as the local bees, because the females do not.
– Augocloropsis Fulgida In the county of bee Lincoln, West Virginia is found.
Can man catch them, then?
Technically yes. Now, Stinger is completely different. It is not rugged rugged, that is, it is not painful and two, the local bees would not die next to him. That’s the mechanism that kills honey: the barbecue stinger is inserted. (When Honeybee flies, Stinger separates and the bees die.)
A lot of time, if people whiten the natives, they were managing, they were actively trying to snatch or catch. It often happens with local bees: rumors, carpenters, things that size. All the rest, you are lucky, if you are lucky, even if it breaks the skin, it leaves much less from the clothes.
A Koelioxys novomexicana Found in the California Central Valley. The species is a parasite that puts its eggs in the nests of another bee Megachile.
Erick Hernandez / USGS Bee Laboratory via Flickr
They are also not very territories. Honeybees is the main reason you are on you You are talking about the hive or resources are honey or flowers. Because the local bees do not protect the hive and have no resources, they do not have resources, much less chance.
What do you know how local bees are made?
In general, bee species are declining, and as a result of habitats loss, use pesticides, more rural areas become more urbanized surfaces and the like.
– Andrana obscigivennis Bees gather in Georgia.
If someone wants to start giving more attention to local bees, how easy is it start identifying local bees?
Bumblebees is the easiest to start, and there are plenty of resources online. They are larger, and usually how you are identifying the coloring of the hair color based on the back of the bee. So if one of them is sitting in a flower, you can go to that and know what decent certainty is, depending on your region. As for other groups, it is difficult. You certainly need a microscope and access to the reference collection, someone who is an expert has already identified some groups.
– Bomb picture has paid The bees found in the Badlands National Park in South Dako. The species is common and is very widespread in the western US
Is there any people who can help local bees?
Are the best and documented ways of trying to present local bees in your area Plant their habitat and plant food source. It doesn’t have to be crazy about it. The local bees are small really Small. So even if you have an apartment, if you have a small area of the garden or a jar, put some local plants there, and I think you will be excited to see when they come to visit.
