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The Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee is a small, fuzzy bee that loves to collect leaves for its nest. It plays an important role in helping flowers grow by pollinating them as it buzzes around!
Lebensraum: Alfalfa fields, gardens, and meadows where flowers bloom.
The Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee is a small, stout bee with a dark body covered in dense, yellowish-grey hairs, especially on its underside. Females have a distinct golden-bristled belly (scopa) for carrying pollen, differing from the leg-pollen baskets of honeybees. They are generally less fuzzy than bumblebees.
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Kategorie
InsektenSeltenheit
Common
Gefahr
1/5 · Sehr gering
Snaps
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Each female bee builds individual nursery cells, laying one egg in each leafy compartment.
Their unique nests look like tiny burritos or cigars made from carefully cut leaf pieces!
These busy bees are so effective at their job, farmers actually buy them to pollinate crops!
Unlike honeybees, they carry pollen on their hairy tummies, not in baskets on their legs!
Alfalfa Leafcutter Bees can snip perfect circular leaf pieces using powerful jaws that helps them build cozy, tubular nest cells.
Alfalfa Leafcutter Bees have a special hairy abdomen (scopa) that helps them efficiently collect and transport pollen.
Alfalfa Leafcutter Bees rapidly and effectively pollinate many flowers, which helps increase crop yields for farmers.
They love to sip sweet nectar and collect protein-rich pollen from flowers to feed their young!

Medicago sativa
Essential for alfalfa seed production.
Sapyga pumila
Lays eggs in the leafcutter bee's nest cells.
Monodontomerus obsoletus
Parasitic wasp that attacks larvae.
Misumena vatia
Hides on flowers, ambushing visiting bees.
Einzelgänger leben den größten Teil ihres Lebens allein und interagieren mit Artgenossen nur zur Paarung oder zur Aufzucht der Jungen.
Farbenfroh beschreibt Organismen oder Objekte, die eine große Vielfalt an leuchtenden und deutlich erkennbaren Farben aufweisen.
Dieses Merkmal kennzeichnet Lebewesen, deren Ernährung vollständig oder hauptsächlich aus pflanzlichem Material besteht.
Tagaktive Tiere sind hauptsächlich bei Tageslicht aktiv und ruhen oder schlafen in der Regel nachts.
Beschreibt Organismen, die Pollen übertragen und so die Befruchtung und Fortpflanzung von Pflanzen ermöglichen.
Gefahr
1/5 · Sehr gering
Noch keine besonderen Sicherheitshinweise.
12-20 mm
6-10 mm
28-42 Tage
15 km/h
They love to sip sweet nectar and collect protein-rich pollen from flowers to feed their young!
Alfalfa fields, gardens, and meadows where flowers bloom.
Foraging
6
Zoome hinein, um Cluster aufzulösen und zu sehen, wo dieses Objekt fotografiert wurde.
Neueste Snaps erscheinen hier, wenn neue Beobachtungen hinzukommen.