Colletidae

Colletidae

walwyn Sun, 10/02/2022 - 13:29

 

Colletidae are a family of some 500 bees that are commonly known as the Plasterer Bees.

Hylaeus

walwyn Mon, 02/15/2010 - 23:41

Worldwide there are over 500 species of these wasp-like bees. They are generally hairless, black  with yellow-white faces small bees. They feed their larvae pollen, but being hairless cannot collect it in the normal manner, instead the female carries the pollen and nectar in her crop and regurgitates it into the cell into which she will lay an egg.

 

Hylaeus brevicornis

walwyn Tue, 02/16/2010 - 21:23

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Hylaeus
Species: H. brevicornis