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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.

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

Aspecto

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

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Datos interesantes

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!

Habilidades especiales

Habilidad

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.

Habilidad

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.

Habilidad

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.

Medidas y detalles

Envergadura
8-12 mm
Tamaño
4-7 mm
Esperanza de vida
30-90 días
Velocidad de vuelo
12 km/h
Cantidad de patas
6
Tamaño de la colonia
1

Dieta y alimentación

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

Alimentos principales

  • nectar
  • pollen
  • flower sap

Método de búsqueda

  • Foraging

Conexiones ecológicas

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.

Rasgos

También conocido como

Little Carpenter BeeStriped Bee

Colecciones

Seguridad

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Preguntas frecuentes

¿Cuál es el envergadura de White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

8-12 mm

¿Cuál es el tamaño de White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

4-7 mm

¿Cuál es el esperanza de vida de White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

30-90 días

¿Cuál es el velocidad de vuelo de White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

12 km/h

¿Qué come White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

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

¿Dónde se encuentra normalmente White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

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

¿Cómo caza White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

Foraging

¿Cuál es el cantidad de patas de White-Striped Little Carpenter Bee?

6

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