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Melissodes

Melissodes are buzzing bees that love to visit flowers! They help plants grow by spreading pollen while they collect nectar to make honey.

Hábitat: Grasslands

Aspecto

The Melissodes is a medium-sized, often fuzzy bee, frequently sporting bands of black and yellow or brown on its abdomen. Males are easily identified by their distinctively long antennae, which extend nearly the length of their body, unlike most other bees.

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Melissodes

Categoría

Insectos

Rareza

Common

Peligro

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Datos interesantes

Each female bee digs her own private burrow in the ground to lay eggs and store pollen.

Males have antennae almost as long as their whole body, earning them the nickname 'long-horned bees'!

Some Melissodes males will sleep inside flowers at night, taking a cozy nap!

They are especially important pollinators for sunflowers and other daisy-family plants.

Habilidades especiales

Melissodes males have extra-long antennae that help them detect female pheromones from a distance.

Melissodes has a dense fuzzy coat that helps them collect and transport lots of pollen from flowers.

Melissodes can reach nectar in deep flowers because of their long tongues, called proboscises.

Melissodes can dig individual nests in the soil, which helps protect their eggs and food stores.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura: 15-30 mm
Tamaño: 7-15 mm
Esperanza de vida: 30-90 días
Velocidad de vuelo: 15 km/h
Cantidad de patas: 6

Dieta y alimentación

Melissodes bees fuel up on sweet nectar and gather protein-rich pollen from various flowers.

Alimentos principales

Nectar
Pollen
Sunflowers
Asters
Goldenrod
Coneflowers

Método de búsqueda

Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

pollinates

Common Sunflower

Helianthus annuus

Crucial for sunflower seed production.

pollinates

Smooth Blue Aster

Aster laevis

Helps aster plants reproduce.

eaten by

Eastern Kingbird

Tyrannus tyrannus

Birds can catch foraging bees.

parasitizes

Cuckoo Bee

Coelioxys rufitarsis

Lays eggs in Melissodes nests.

Rasgos

Peludo

Peludo describe a los animales que poseen una cubierta densa de pelo o pelaje suave.

Social

Los animales sociales viven en grupos organizados, cooperando para obtener beneficios de supervivencia como la búsqueda de alimento, la defensa y la cría de descendencia.