VOLTINISM IN MEGACHILE ROTUNDATA (MEGACHILIDAE: HYMENOPTERA) IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA

1 February 1972

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Canadian Entomologist

Vol. 104 (2) , 185-188
https://doi.org/10.4039/ent104185-2

Abstract

Almost 40% of the cells of Megachile rotundata (F.) from the earliest completed tunnels in the hives produced as second-generation bees. This percentage rapidly decreased in the later completed tunnels. The difference between wing venation of bees that emerged in spring and of second-generation bees that emerged in summer appears to be related to voltinism.

Keywords

MEGACHILE ROTUNDATA
COMPLETED TUNNELS
SOUTHERN ALBERTA
WING VENATION
HIVES PRODUCED
EARLIEST COMPLETED
RAPIDLY DECREASED
SUMMER APPEARS

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Artificial Nesting Sites for the Propagation of the Leaf-Cutter Bee, Megachile (Eutricharaea) rotundata, for Alfalfa Pollination
Journal of Economic Entomology, 1961
Bees of the Eastern United States, Volume I
The Florida Entomologist, 1960