Breeding of osmium bees. Osmia rufa, cornuta, hives

Yes, interesting.. Well, in principle, you can catch it, I think in a day or two there will be such an opportunity, of course, I would like to go to another place, I try not to go to the same ones.
And osmia will soon seem to me in a fly and then in butterflies at such a pace, it's already a shame, I can't even say for sure now if I've ever seen osmia at all at least once )))
In the vicinity of the house is also not visible, although dandelions are already beginning to bloom.

With these words, Pan finally admits the critical level of his amnesia and other "muhaha"? Commendable. But, perhaps, specialists, if urgently applied, will still be able to fix everything?

Carcharoth, you keep seeing chimeras all the time. What was found out about that bee I don't remember what kind (yes, my memory is also far from ideal, I confess), which had a" wrong " brush on its belly?

Here-such a "reed" for xylocope valga is suitable or you need even more and thicker-walled? And what is the optimal length?



This post was edited by ENO-05.04.2016 09: 15

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...

Come on, you bet it's a normal male Anthophora with 13 antenna segments.
You should take a look here - that's where virtual "plastic surgery"is!
http://macroclub.ru/gallery/showphoto.php/.../214050/cat/562

... Here-such a "reed" for xylocope valga is suitable or you need even more and thicker-walled? And what is the optimal length?

I've never seen Xylocopa settle in the reeds. Only in self gnawed cavities in all sorts of poplars etc

Well, Carcharoth saw it and settled it. I just don't know if it's the waltz or the viola, or if there's any difference between them in this regard. In the southern wall of my house, walguts nest en masse, I think if you successfully hang the "reed", there is a chance. Although the "reed" is actually the trunk of a young dead ailanthus. It's just a matter of diameter and length. After all, you can cut down more thickly.

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Carcharoth, you keep seeing chimeras all the time. What was found out about that bee I don't remember what kind (yes, my memory is also far from ideal, I confess), which had a" wrong " brush on its belly?

Nothing, I gave it to ZIN.

Here-such a "reed" for xylocope valga is suitable or you need even more and thicker-walled? And what is the optimal length?

I don't know. Try to put a female in there, if it is in the collection, it should enter with difficulty, not freely.

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Well, Carcharoth saw it and settled it. I just don't know if it's the waltz or the viola, or if there's any difference between them in this regard. In the southern wall of my house, walguts nest en masse, I think if you successfully hang the "reed", there is a chance. Although the "reed" is actually the trunk of a young dead ailanthus. It's just a matter of diameter and length. After all, you can cut down more thickly.

Tolka valga nested, and more than once. I don't remember the diameter, unfortunately.

Come on, you bet it's a normal male Anthophora with 13 antenna segments.

No, not normal. Such a platypus does not occur in males of anthophores, only in females.

 
You should take a look here - that's where virtual "plastic surgery"is!
http://macroclub.ru/gallery/showphoto.php/.../214050/cat/562

Photoshop?

  
Photoshop?

Are there other ways to "stick" the female's belly to the male's carcass?
It is not this that touches me, but the reaction of the author of this pearl to the comments, as well as the level of his knowledge.

Are there other ways to "stick" the female's belly to the male's carcass?
It is not this that touches me, but the reaction of the author of this pearl to the comments, as well as the level of his knowledge.

Well, there's still some glue. Although the photo shows a bit of interference in the editor: the belly looks superimposed on top of the rest of the frame.

Well, there's still some glue. Although the photo shows a bit of interference in the editor: the belly looks superimposed on top of the rest of the frame.

Heh, if only clay. Well, I could do something similar in Corel PhotoPaint as well. But why?

But there's no sign of a paunch in yet another photo. Spider chewed off and ate?

http://macroclub.ru/gallery/showphoto.php/.../214095/cat/562

This suggests a simple option: the author of" masterpiece " found a male hornet without a belly on the road, for example, after meeting a bird, perhaps not even alive, and very carefully threw it into the krestovik network. If you throw it successfully, they also throw themselves at dead insects. Although a live actively moving wasp without a belly is also a common phenomenon (temporary). Be that as it may, the network of diadematus is simply not able to withstand a live gray hornet, it even begins to break on small scoops. Checked repeatedly. The main natural prey of this species is mosquitoes and similar-sized insects. Maximum - flies, arrows, and firecrackers.

Are there other ways to "stick" the female's belly to the male's carcass?
It is not this that touches me, but the reaction of the author of this pearl to the comments, as well as the level of his knowledge.

I've never understood why I should write about "levels of knowledge"
Generally speaking, emphasizing the" worthlessness " of other people doesn't do you any good, to put it mildly, but.. people like different forms of elevation above others ..

Well priphoto#sawdust man belly, well, who likes that ) The only bad thing, of course, is that I didn't write about it, but if, for example, he posted this photo for showing to specialists, for definition-this is one thing, and so, for glamour-yes, at least you can sculpt from a fly, so the artist sees the world )))

Here Ezoks like corrected, already their megafotki at least size 1075 lays out

Pan Chukchi again miscalculated-up to 1024. This is already a habit of his, and along with forgetfulness, it is also a symptom of some kind. probably. But only those that don't have any small details that you need to display. But on the last such details are available. By the way, the first two are a crop from a regular pseudo-macro, and only a little resize so that everything is aligned to the same size. The conclusion is obvious: as for cropping a picture taken without additional strays, or cruelly resizing a huge photo with macro strays, as pan usually does , the result is the same (slag). So why pay more?(С)

slag

And here - vomit slang and blindness ))
Esox, can you explain to the unenlightened what hidden details are revealed to this world in the picture of poor osmia in 3000, which are not visible in 1400 and which will disappear in the picture in 1000? I can tell you that there are none.
Even the initial resolution of this kenon is redundant for 3000, and after the lens curve, such photos should be taken no more than 600 on the larger side

Yes, I can see that Pan's mental state is rapidly deteriorating. At first, he forgot everything that I sent him for several years on soap, then he began to confuse bumblebees with osmias, now he carries such a frank mess. No need to download this photo, make a resize to 600 and compare it with the original. I would immediately notice all the missing "hidden details". Although in the current state, perhaps, even this pan can not do. Therefore, I will tell you: among the details that disappear when resizing without a trace in the first row are eye facets.

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Carcharot, AVA, explain to your fellow academic the meaninglessness of photos from a soap dish in 1500 and even more so in 3000, otherwise I will also post these )))

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Does Pan think that Carcharot is shooting 600 films at once? Oh, how he got stuck today, sick. And in the photo with a bumblebee, there is no optical resolution, really nothing will be lost even with a strong resize. But it's better to crop-why is there so much empty space? I suppose this is without a" nosey " shot? Really shitty macro mode at this Olympus, Pan did the right thing, deciding to finish it.

in the first row there are eye facets.

The eye facets don't move!
Who needs these facets? Well, who needs them here?

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And here it is-in general, a bomb

In this case, they are very large (both on the hornet and in the photo due to the Olympus superpupersum). Now let Pan try the same trick with the head of osmia that I posted above. Facets themselves are not particularly necessary for anyone (although there are exceptions), but their distinctness is an indicator of sufficient resolution for studying external morphology and other, more interesting places. But, of course, for a person who confuses an osmia with a bumblebee in a sufficiently high-quality picture, such nuances are completely elusive and therefore seem insignificant. Similarly, for me, a certain, in my opinion mythical, "color detailing"is elusive and insignificant. But there is a certain difference: the sculpture of veils is an important diagnostic feature, and the most subtle shades of color are not.

This suggests a simple option: the author of" masterpiece " found a male hornet without a belly on the road, for example, after meeting a bird, perhaps not even alive, and very carefully threw it into the krestovik network. If you throw it successfully, they also throw themselves at dead insects. Although a live actively moving wasp without a belly is also a common phenomenon (temporary). Be that as it may, the network of diadematus is simply not able to withstand a live gray hornet, it even begins to break on small scoops. Checked repeatedly. The main natural prey of this species is mosquitoes and similar-sized insects. Maximum - flies, arrows, and firecrackers.

I agree, the network can't handle a healthy hornet.
I, in fact, these pictures initially attracted to the search for potential enemies of the OS. But I quickly cooled down when I realized that this was an obvious hack. So the simplest option turns out to be the most correct one.
But polistov or Saxon krestoviki catch in the network. Verified by observations. A couple of years ago, diadematus built a net right in front of the Saxonik airstrip from under the kitchen roof and quite successfully caught stupid workers who were tempted by flies caught in the net. With the sheets, the picture is almost the same. There are other, much smaller liniphiids, who are quite able to cope even with the founders of rufa. Not to mention the filthy lowlands on flowers that lie in wait for anyone, including polists.

 
And what, you still haven't identified it?

Apparently, the hands did not reach.

I'd rather cut trunks of different diameters.

Yes, this is a good approach.


I won't say anything about images, lenses, or permissions - I'm tired of it.

Today osmium was just a mess. Bicornis is still not very much, but cornutus... I don't recall that there were so many of them in previous years. And some of the females are just huge, with anthophora, and even the queen of bumblebees from small species. Such, probably, just my "reed" intended for xylocopa will be in time. They visit almost everything that is blooming now: chistyak, woodlands, violets. But the real Mecca (and not only for osmias) is the entomophilic willow.








By the way, Carcharoth, can you identify willows?" Botany on the Coat of Arms - apparently not.

And Stepova's pa in his fruitless search for osmia among all the furry things that fly in his steppe, let him envy-they come to me themselves:



And one male stuck to a magnifying glass nozzle, and taken from the lens at a decent distance from the bush. In general, male bees in terms of sexual preferences are not much more picky than April nehrusch, I observed many different interesting cases on that willow tree today.

By the way, Carcharoth, can you identify willows?" Botany on the Coat of Arms - apparently not.

I don't know how, I've never tried it.

I don't know how, I've never tried it.

And try it, you might like it)))

Well, now I've got it? As I understand it, the first photo is a male eucera. The second photo of the Eucera shows a female. On the last, anthophora-female, on the third and 4th photos-probably among them there is osmium

And here is the penultimate photo..
Who does the spider eat then? It looks like a male eucera, but there are three cubital cells ???

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Here is another angle,+, as I understand it, Andrena, and someone from the galikts, quite large.

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Pan got a bagel hole, and there are no osmias among these bees. Again and again. I told you: we should look for them not in the steppe, but in the city. But who's going to listen?

Today's Osmia cornuta:




And Osmia bicornis:




Pan is worth looking at and remembering, and if this is too much, tattoo it on your arm for comparison.

I wonder if Pan will be able to find at least one osmia in this photo? I could.

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On Monday, I came across a male infected with ticks. I wanted to free him from them: I took him home, put him on a napkin, covered him with a lid, put some apple juice in there(he was eating), and in the evening I will come home from work and clean him with a needle.
But in the evening, the male lay on his back and practically did not move. So there was no point in cleaning it.
As it seems to me - it was not my bee, mine were selected and clean, apparently somewhere local came out.
I tried to shoot parasites under a microscope, and that's what happened... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa3Q7Qo5gHI
You need to think of a better design.

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And try it, you might like it)))

Try it yourself.

Well, now I've got it? As I understand it, the first photo is a male eucera. The second photo of the Eucera shows a female. On the last, anthophora-female, on the third and 4th photos-probably among them there is osmium

1 - male Eucera.
2 - I don't know.
3-female Eucera caspica.
4-looks like a male of some Osmia.

And here is the penultimate photo..
Who does the spider eat then? It looks like a male eucera, but there are three cubital cells ???

There are also three, which used to belong to the genus Tetralonia (there is only one summer species left, the rest are now in Eucera and Tetraloniella, but the latter are also summer).

And what's in the last photo, that strange anthophora again? I would have caught her at last.

Here is another angle,+, as I understand it, Andrena, and someone from the galikts, quite large.

2 - Lasioglossum.
3 - Halictus.
4 - Andrena.

On Monday, I came across a male infected with ticks. I wanted to free him from them: I took him home, put him on a napkin, covered him with a lid, put some apple juice in there(he was eating), and in the evening I will come home from work and clean him with a needle.
But in the evening, the male lay on his back and practically did not move. So there was no point in cleaning it.

Overheated? Or the juice "didn't go"? It is unlikely that he was killed by ticks, these ticks have a different task - to run over to the female and get into the nest to eat pollen.

 
1 - male Eucera.
2 - I don't know.
3-female Eucera caspica.
4-looks like a male of some Osmia.
There are also three, which used to belong to the genus Tetralonia (there is only one summer species left, the rest are now in Eucera and Tetraloniella, but the latter are also summer).

And what's in the last photo, that strange anthophora again? I would have caught her at last.

I still did not go there, I went to the next beam, it is not far from that, but there are of course slightly different conditions, I just wanted to watch a dream, and dreams in that beam where I met that strange bee very far away, and here-for 5 km they are already growing from ostanevka
But how amazing that there are so many different bees now, as I didn't pay attention to before.. And I didn't take any nets, and it's a pity to catch them.. They are all different, it is necessary to catch almost every one..

Interestingly, the behavior of all these bees is very similar, they have a characteristic flight, they sit down on the ground, they are very shy,they like to feed on rinders, hyacinthella, muscari, and adonis avoid.

Well, you don't know about the second photo at all, it's not a willow tree with such a beautiful pubescence, it's a pity, timid, only took one photo, and ran away.

And this is, um, what are they doing? )))
After all, two males seem to be) Fighting, probably)

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Today at work I went and watched dandelions-mute osmium ( At this rate, I will then have to write out osmium at the beginning of the next season

Overheated? Or the juice "didn't go"? It is unlikely that he was killed by ticks, these ticks have a different task - to run over to the female and get into the nest to eat pollen.

a close inspection showed that the bees were "stuck" in the juice, he got in and soaked everything on himself.
too much for me, a typical drone unhappy....

Today at work I went to watch dandelions-mute osmium ( At this rate, I will then have to write out osmium by the beginning of the next season at Osmium

Write it out. Maybe your kids haven't woken up yet. we have a sea of different dachas, and in garages, and even fly to the 6th floor.
I cut open a couple of cocoons - there are still some bees sitting there, and in one there were white larvae of some parasites. tomorrow I will go to choose and take pictures.
I dug a hole of 120 cm for a soil sample, then bees got into it for clay and earth to fly.

   Write it out. Maybe your kids haven't woken up yet. we have a sea of different dachas, and in garages, and even fly to the 6th floor.
I cut open a couple of cocoons - there are still some bees sitting there, and in one there were white larvae of some parasites. tomorrow I will go to choose and take pictures.
I dug a hole of 120 cm for a soil sample, then bees got into it for clay and earth to fly.

It's unlikely they didn't wake up, as I understand that the osmia wake up quite early, because Ezox already has a lot of them. Still, I remember that I saw rsmii in our country, they are there, but probably not so much, maybe as with hornets, they don't like something in the climate, it's very dry, there were no large forests.

Why do bees need clay and earth? There are some bees that are also like wasps, they build houses for larvae?

  
Why do bees need clay and earth? There are some bees that are also like wasps, they build houses for larvae?

And how to build partitions? Yes, and the caps in the tube are sometimes made up to 10 mm thick. There are some bees that make partitions and covers from chewed leaves, but mostly it is soil.