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Bellflower Resin Bee

Megachile campanulae

The Bellflower Resin Bee is a small, fuzzy bee that loves to collect resin from plants. They are great pollinators and help flowers grow by spreading pollen as they visit them.

Hábitat: Grasslands

Aspecto

The Bellflower Resin Bee is a dark-bodied bee with distinct pale yellow to whitish hair bands on its abdomen. It has a bright reddish-orange "pollen brush" (scopa) on the underside of its belly and robust mandibles for manipulating sticky resin.

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Bellflower Resin Bee
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Bellflower Resin Bee

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Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Bellflower Resin Bees often sleep inside bellflowers, using them as tiny sleeping bags!

Each female bee builds her own cozy nest, all by herself!

They carry pollen on their belly hairs, not on their legs like honeybees!

They seal their nests with sticky tree sap, like nature's super glue!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

Resin Architect

Bellflower Resin Bees can collect and sculpt sticky tree resin because it helps them build strong, waterproof nest cells.

Habilidad

Belly Basket

Bellflower Resin Bees have stiff hairs on their belly that helps them carry huge loads of pollen back to their nests.

Habilidad

Flower Specialist

Bellflower Resin Bees can efficiently gather nectar and pollen from bellflowers because they are perfectly adapted to them.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura
15-25 mm
Tamaño
9-13 mm
Esperanza de vida
20-40 días
Velocidad de vuelo
15 km/h
Cantidad de patas
6
Tamaño de la colonia
1

Dieta y alimentación

Nectar fuels their flight, while pollen feeds their growing young!

Alimentos principales

  • Nectar (Bellflowers)
  • Pollen (Bellflowers)
  • Nectar (other flowers)
  • Pollen (other flowers)

Método de búsqueda

  • Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

pollinates

Harebell

Campanula rotundifolia

Primary pollinator for its specialized host flower.

eaten by

European Garden Spider

Araneus diadematus

Spiders often ambush foraging bees near flowers.

parasitizes

Bellflower Cuckoo Bee

Coelioxys coturnix

Lays eggs in its nests, stealing food for its own young.

Rasgos

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Colecciones

Seguridad

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If you see a bee, watch it from a distance and don't touch it. They are usually busy working!

Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el envergadura de Bellflower Resin Bee?

15-25 mm

¿Cuál es el tamaño de Bellflower Resin Bee?

9-13 mm

¿Cuál es el esperanza de vida de Bellflower Resin Bee?

20-40 días

¿Cuál es el velocidad de vuelo de Bellflower Resin Bee?

15 km/h

¿Qué come Bellflower Resin Bee?

Nectar fuels their flight, while pollen feeds their growing young!

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente Bellflower Resin Bee?

Grasslands

¿Cómo caza Bellflower Resin Bee?

Foraging

¿Cuál es el cantidad de patas de Bellflower Resin Bee?

6

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