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White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee

ceratina strenua

The White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee is a tiny, buzzing helper in the garden! It loves to collect pollen and nectar from flowers to make sweet honey.

Lebensraum: These bees can be found in gardens, parks, and woodlands where there are plenty of flowers.

Aussehen

The White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee is a small, slender bee, often sporting a shiny, dark metallic blue or green body. It has a distinctive white or pale yellow stripe across its face (clypeus), which makes it visually different from many other tiny bees. Its wings are clear with dark veins.

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White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee
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White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee

Kategorie

Insekten

Seltenheit

Common

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

Snaps

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Interessante Fakten

Each female bee lays her eggs in a line, creating separate rooms for each baby bee inside the stem.

These bees are often metallic blue or green, making them look like tiny flying jewels in the sun.

Unlike giant carpenter bees, these 'little' ones prefer to nest in the soft pith of plant stems!

When a baby bee grows up, it chews its way out of its tiny cell and then out of the stem!

Besondere Fähigkeiten

Fähigkeit

Pith Tunneling Expert

White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee can bore into soft plant stems because they have strong mandibles, which helps them create safe nurseries for their developing young.

Fähigkeit

Pollen Carrying Hairs

White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee has special branched hairs on its legs that help them carry pollen, ensuring their babies have food and plants are pollinated.

Fähigkeit

Buzz Pollination Power

White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee can vibrate its flight muscles rapidly to shake pollen from certain flowers, which helps them collect more food.

Maße und Details

Flügelspannweite
8-12 mm
Größe
4-7 mm
Lebenserwartung
30-90 Tage
Fluggeschwindigkeit
12 km/h
Anzahl der Beine
6
Koloniegröße
1

Ernährung und Fütterung

These bees eat nectar for energy and pollen for protein, helping plants grow!

Hauptnahrung

  • nectar
  • pollen
  • flower sap

Nahrungssuche

  • Foraging

Ökologische Zusammenhänge

pollinates

Japanese Honeysuckle

Lonicera japonica

Helps this plant reproduce by carrying its pollen to other flowers.

pollinates

Raspberry

Rubus idaeus

An important pollinator for fruit-bearing plants like wild raspberries.

eaten by

Chinese Mantis

Tenodera sinensis

These bees can become prey for larger predatory insects like mantises.

eaten by

Great Tit

Parus major

Small birds, such as tits, sometimes catch bees for food.

Merkmale

Auch bekannt als

Little Carpenter BeeStriped Bee

Sammlungen

Sicherheit

Gefahr

1/5 · Sehr gering

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Häufig gestellte Fragen

Was ist der/die/das flügelspannweite von White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

8-12 mm

Was ist der/die/das größe von White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

4-7 mm

Was ist der/die/das lebenserwartung von White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

30-90 Tage

Was ist der/die/das fluggeschwindigkeit von White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

12 km/h

Was frisst White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

These bees eat nectar for energy and pollen for protein, helping plants grow!

Wo findet man White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee normalerweise?

These bees can be found in gardens, parks, and woodlands where there are plenty of flowers.

Wie jagt White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

Foraging

Was ist der/die/das anzahl der Beine von White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

6

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