Bees make up more than 20,000 species of insects in the suborder Apocrita (order Hymenoptera), including the familiar honeybee and bumblebee as well as thousands more wasplike and flylike bees.
bees that mark a transitional form between the lower and the higher bees;Megachilidae(leaf-cuttingandmason bees), noted for their elaborate nest structures;Stenotritidae, a small family of Australian bees; andApidaewith some 5,700 species ofbumblebees,honeybees,stingless bees,carpenter bees, and...
New Zealand holds some of the most unique environments and species in the world, secluded as an island country. Birds of the country are especially of note. In fact, New Zealand is so fond of their avifauna that an annual Bird of the Year contest is held every October and is widely deb...
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The African landscape (and the Australian one too) have often been engulfed by fire, thus whenever this occurs the proteas are able to continue its evolution and survive without much damage (3). This condition is good, especially nowadays when fires are more frequent. ...
But in the angiosperms, the most dominant agent of pollination is animals, particularly insects of which the bees are common in many plant species. A list of various types of pollination and the respective pollen vectors involved are provided below. ...
In the Australian genus Caladenia, two species use (methylthio)phenols to attract Campylothynnus pollinators [21,22], while another species attracts a member of a different wasp genus, Zeleboria, using a monoterpene and an acetophenone [23]. In sexually deceptive orchids, floral odour is ...
Honeybees ingest the nectar of flowers, and then the sugars and phenols from the nectar are mixed with enzymes and peptides in a special bee storage organ called the crop. The mixture is regurgitated into honeycombs, where the bees concentrate it into honey by beating their wings to ...
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•Cueva de las Manos(Cave of the Hands)(c.9,500 BCE) Rio de las Pinturas, Argentina •Cave of Bees(Figurative Paintings) (c.9,000 BCE) Matopos, Zimbabwe •Bhimbetka Rock Paintings and Stencilled Images(c.9,000-7,000 BCE) ...