Breeding of osmium bees. Osmia rufa, cornuta, hives

Many have thick yellowish larvae.
https://goo.gl/photos/Nh2nSp9ArkpRQsPk9

These are Eumenine wasps, I can't figure out what kind, I can't see the head. Possibly Symmorphus.

I've already seen such bees in the steppes, it's a pity, it didn't work out well to take a picture - well, they are VERY shy, even 50 cm distance didn't help )

It's not Osmia, it's Andrena.

The Andrens, in my memory, have never been particularly timid. But if the hands are hooks, then 50 m will not save you. I here the other day in warm sunny weather anoplia photographed from 3 cm, facets are visible. But don't let Pan get too upset - the flower came out great, you can post it in the botanical section!

the flower came out great, you can post it in the botanical section!

No, no, species of the genus Gagea without bulbs and leaves are not definable.

It's not Osmia, it's Andrena.

Well, please, what does a specialist mean, even on an absolutely smudged photo determined, but only-100% confidence? I wasn't sure myself, but I thought she was more like osmia, because she was acting so strangely. very shy, and sits more often on the leaves to bask than on the flowers.
Yes, and the flower came out actually terrible, because I actually took pictures with a rush, with a run-up)

I have another halict osmium, but Carcharoth knows exactly what kind of species it is, I'm sure

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Here is what I chose from the last handsets. the yellow larva is interesting, and a short cone-like cocoon is located to the right from above. and also a white larva on the left.

But such a bee is the most common, massively on all flowers, also some kind of galictus most likely..

Well, a photo designed in the style of, where without it

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Well, please, what does a specialist mean, even on an absolutely smudged photo determined, but only-100% confidence? I wasn't sure myself, but I thought she was more like osmia, because she was acting so strangely. very shy, and sits more often on the leaves to bask than on the flowers.

Yes, 100% andrena.

I have another halict osmium, but Carcharoth knows exactly what kind of species it is, I'm sure

I don't know the species, but the genus is Sphecodes.

But such a bee is the most common, massively on all flowers, also some kind of galictus most likely..

Well, a photo designed in the style of, where without it

Is it one bee or two? The upper one is a Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) of the malachurum type, and the lower ass is generally similar to a honeybee.

This post was edited by Carcharot - 12.03.2016 21: 41

Here is what I chose from the last handsets. the yellow larva is interesting, and a short cone-like cocoon is located to the right from above. and also a white larva on the left.

The yellow larva is the eumenina wasp, I can't say for sure. It can be Discoelius, Symmorphus, or Ancistrocerus. A short kunus-like cocoon is a glistening wasp, probably it was on Trypoxylon, it usually has Chrysis cyanea with such cocoons. White larva on the left - it is difficult to say whether it may have fallen out of the cocoon of a glistenworm (the same one or the one with the oval cocoon on the left). Or, if it was without a cocoon, then it could be some kind of rider.

I don't know about her ass, but her wings are definitely from apis. And Pan, along the way, thinks that on both photos-one bee. Fine venation, but how could you not notice the difference in size, especially against the background of approximately one-caliber crocus flowers? Apparently, the "uuuhhh" in his terra was really ugly this spring. How does that andrena look like an osmia, a combination of black and red colors? Osmium is not such at all, and there are only two types of them (at least in our region, but I doubt that there are many more on Nikolaevna, although I was not specifically interested).

Is it one bee or two? The upper one is a Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) of the malachurum type, and the lower ass is generally similar to a honeybee.

To be or not to be

 

I don't know the species, but the genus is Sphecodes.

Thank you, this bee is interesting in its ecology, parasitic, only one such caught, and quite timid, if not for the long distance of shooting, it could have escaped

To be or not to be
Yes, Carcharoth, you would not have been expelled )))

http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=17455&st=22

So that's how Pan Stepovoi left uni! In general, I liked Professor Sergeyev's method. Anyone is better to guess by tails than to tell the path of blood in the circulatory system of birds (to the leading ornithologist of that time in Ukraine). But I also had a solid 5.

I don't know about nedostepi pan, but in our Megastepi (TM) there are a lot of sphecodes of different calibers.

You've got all sorts of things in your gutter, Esox.. in words
blah blah blah

osmia, and when will osmia appear? I can't wait

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You've got all sorts of things in your gutter, Esox.. in words
blah blah blah

osmia, and when will osmia appear? I can't wait

These are also Evylaeus's - maybe the same, or maybe others...

And I had a whole box of Sphecodes, about 400 copies, but they left for Kiev a couple of years ago , and now I don't even know if I'll get them back...

These are also Evylaeus's - maybe the same, or maybe others...

And I had a whole box of Sphecodes, about 400 copies, but they left for Kiev a couple of years ago , and now I don't even know if I'll get them back...

You have a box, and I have one, but on a flower

And such evilheuses are very numerous, they are now almost in every flower, and a little warmer - so their darkness will fly over the roads in general, over their nests.

So anyway, when do the osmia appear? I thought they would be here very early, but I didn't see any of them.

My fuzzies are still "sleeping" but not all of them. Some of the males have wailed and flown away, while others are still sitting. None of the females came out, although there are incised cocoons. Yesterday I teased one female with a straw - it buzzes, grabs her teeth, but does not climb out. It's probably not time yet, and it'll be cold for another week and a half.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0j4yZYZWxw
But there is time to place beehives, prepare translucent houses for observation.
A dozen males on 8e arranged a flyby on the balcony, as a gift to his wife
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rioO_Pht6lQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLwCHd-fpLQ
They also went to visit their mother-in-law, so I placed beehives in the garden.

If Valera ditched his bees, then at least let the osmia get divorced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGm5sZ-PJC8

And such evilheuses are very numerous, they are now almost in every flower, and a little warmer - so their darkness will fly over the roads in general, over their nests.

So anyway, when do the osmia appear? I thought they would be here very early, but I didn't see any of them.

Yes, the most common of them is malachurum, perhaps this is it.

Osmia are usually already starting to fly at this time (males). I don't know, I haven't seen it in my office yet either. So we should start soon.

This post was edited by Carcharot - 13.03.2016 20: 08

The time of appearance of osmias strongly depends on the weather, in cloudy weather they prefer to sit in shelters, with the exception of females during the period of provoking the nest. So with the first sun, it will most likely be full. But you just need to look not in the beams of all sorts, but directly under the house. First, the males will go, after a couple of days-the females (and notable porn), and then until mid - May-the female construction workers. I don't see any point in hanging empty beehives before April. All of this applies to Osmia cornuta, O. bicornis I observed only on flowers (also in urban areas) and I can't say anything about nesting, I didn't come across any other species.

Osmia, this is all cool for you, although if Meyan had a private house, then everyone would live there who could

And I do not believe that there are no osmias in the steppes, there are also forest cover there, and I remember seeing similar ones there.

  
But there is time to place beehives, prepare translucent houses for observation.

And for whom are such big holes in the ligaments, for bats?
Ksttai, here I did not like about the mouse on a string, so it is impossible, especially so that the children scoffed, and I feel sorry for the mouse

I'll put some cocoons in there. Hatched and immediately near the houses.
And about the mouse-I thought too late, I don't let you torment me anymore. Must learn not to be afraid of "nasty" tummies

This post was edited by osmia - 13.03.2016 22: 32

I want to see what happens in the nests of osmium, for this purpose I slightly altered the experimental milled evidence. I glued a transparent plate on silicone, and I'll cover it with paper on top. So that no light gets in. If they settle in transparent tubes, then such boards should not be "idle".

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Porya and I make beehives, cornuts poperli, and immediately both sexes and a lot. For a long time they had to wait for good weather this year in full combat readiness.

Here it is here it is, the osmia of my dreams )) Steppe osmium, and quite often comes across in the steppe, for some reason it likes to feed on hyacinthellas most of all, but is it osmium at least this time ?

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What a fluffy beauty.
and mine made a big noise at the dacha today. Many people got out of their cocoons. Tomorrow I want to select the pacifiers, and find out exactly how much is left.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOG-Ryh71xI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIY1rPWqBk4

It is not for nothing that the osmias are so furry and densely packed: yesterday they were the only pollinators other than flies. All the other bees could not stand the cold, cloudy and very windy weather, even bumblebees. Pan's bee habitually really resembles an osmium, but the interpretation is not visible, making a crop instead of a resize with a bunch of completely superfluous background, obviously, the specific upbringing of pan does not allow. Anyway, I'm not exactly familiar with this species. Perhaps the reason is that we do not grow hyacinthella. I am afraid that pan will rush to look for their growing points in the Donetsk region in another attempt to shame me. Not worth it. In those places where these plants grow, maybe there are bees like that, but this has nothing to do with my places. We have plenty of other interesting plants and interesting bees (see the topic "cameras").

Here it is here it is, the osmia of my dreams )) Steppe osmium, and quite often comes across in the steppe, for some reason it likes to feed on hyacinthellas most of all, but is it osmium at least this time ?

This is Anthophora.

This is Anthophora.

Hmm, but the three submarginal cells are clearly visible...

So there should be three of them. I am more confused that, based on the well-marked structure of the middle legs , this is a male Anthophora retusa, but the head is from the female! And the first of April seems to have already passed... I don't know what to think.

Yes.. I'm not lucky yet on osmium Thanks for the clarification, downloaded (already what time, all the time is lost () Plavilshchikova, in principle, everything is clear, you need two qubital cells to watch. Well, for one thing I understood how to distinguish between galiktov and andren, and now I'm more confident that this is not a galikt, but such an andrena

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So there should be three of them. I am more confused that, based on the well-marked structure of the middle legs , this is a male Anthophora retusa, but the head is from the female! And the first of April seems to have already passed... I don't know what to think.

Well, okay, I definitely didn't change anything there Ksttai, males, it must have been them, I saw them with longer antennae, like. And these bees are very, very shy, it was hard to take pictures, they don't let them get close, except from 70 cm..

Here are the clippings, all of them

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No, the whiskers of male anthophores are not very different from those of females. But in the male, the platypus is light and without such pubescence on it. Here see here: http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/133770.jpg

Yes.. I'm not lucky yet on osmium Thanks for the clarifications, I downloaded (already what time, all the time is lost ( ) Plavilshchikova, in principle, everything is clear, you need to watch two qubital cells. Well, for one thing I understood how to distinguish between galiktov and andren, and now I'm more confident that this is not a galikt, but such an andrena

Yes, Andrena.

But it would be better to download at least the Determinant of insects of the European part of the USSR, 1978, volume 3, part 1.

No, the whiskers of male anthophores are not very different from those of females. But in the male, the platypus is light and without such pubescence on it. Here see here: http://www.biolib.cz/IMG/GAL/133770.jpg

Really, some kind of nonsense turns out Well, with a mustache, maybe it seemed to me.
But really, judging by the pictures on the link exactly that the leg is from the male and the head from the female! Basically, all three photos show the same bee.
Her behavior is very similar to the andren that I had previously doubted osmia or not, that is, collecting nectar and then the bee sits down on pebbles and warms up. And the same fearfulness. But this is definitely not an andrena, it seems that the 1st qubital cell is not divided.

Or maybe the females for such keys were taken old from mossy museums, so the pubescence was erased)


I downloaded the European part identifier, but the keys there are such that at least you need to catch bees and sedge, + even without experience and knowledge, not all the keys are clear.

Well, this is osmium, isn't it? You can't really see the veins here, but what about osmium?)
http://molbiol.ru/forums/uploads/post-10232-1459760174.jpg

From this post
http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=526324&st=4273

Well, this is osmium, isn't it? You can't really see the veins here, but what about osmium?)
http://molbiol.ru/forums/uploads/post-10232-1459760174.jpg

It's a bumblebee. Similar to Bombus pasquorum.

This post was edited by Carcharot - 04.04.2016 22: 09

Really, some kind of nonsense turns out Well, with a mustache, maybe it seemed to me.
But really, judging by the pictures on the link exactly that the leg is from the male and the head from the female! Basically, all three photos show the same bee.
Her behavior is very similar to the andren that I had previously doubted osmia or not, that is, collecting nectar and then the bee sits down on pebbles and warms up. And the same fearfulness. But this is definitely not an andrena, it seems that the 1st qubital cell is not divided.

Or maybe the females for such keys were taken old from mossy museums, so the pubescence was erased)
I downloaded the European part identifier, but the keys there are such that at least you need to catch bees and sedge, + even without experience and knowledge, not all the keys are clear.

Females of this species never have such pubescence. They have two forms - either pure black or all striped (black with white hair bands, previously considered a separate species). And males are always the same-red from the head to the second segment of the abdomen, and further segments are black (it is clear that over time the hairs are erased, and the coloring fades).
Here in the photo is a typical pubescence of a" fresh " male Anthophora retusa. And his legs, they are characteristic of each species, and I determined the species from them. Females do not have such legs. But even male anthophores of any species do not have such a head!
But you still need to catch sometimes, since such miracles come across...