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Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee

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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.

Aussehen

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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Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

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Interessante Fakten

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!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Leaf Architects

Alfalfa Leafcutter Bees can snip perfect circular leaf pieces using powerful jaws that helps them build cozy, tubular nest cells.

Fähigkeit

Belly Pollen Carrier

Alfalfa Leafcutter Bees have a special hairy abdomen (scopa) that helps them efficiently collect and transport pollen.

Fähigkeit

Super Pollinators

Alfalfa Leafcutter Bees rapidly and effectively pollinate many flowers, which helps increase crop yields for farmers.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
12-20 mm
Größe
6-10 mm
Lebenserwartung
28-42 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
15 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6

Ernährung und Fütterung

They love to sip sweet nectar and collect protein-rich pollen from flowers to feed their young!

Hauptnahrung

  • Nectar
  • Pollen
  • Alfalfa pollen
  • Clover pollen
  • Sunflower pollen

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

pollinates

Alfalfa

Medicago sativa

Essential for alfalfa seed production.

parasitizes

Cuckoo Bee

Sapyga pumila

Lays eggs in the leafcutter bee's nest cells.

parasitizes

Chalcid Wasp

Monodontomerus obsoletus

Parasitic wasp that attacks larvae.

eaten by

Crab Spider

Misumena vatia

Hides on flowers, ambushing visiting bees.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Alfalfa BeeMegachile Bee

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee?

12-20 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee?

6-10 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee?

28-42 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee?

15 km/h

Was frisst Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee?

They love to sip sweet nectar and collect protein-rich pollen from flowers to feed their young!

Wo findet man Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee normalerweise?

Alfalfa fields, gardens, and meadows where flowers bloom.

Wie jagt Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee?

6

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