Breeding of osmium bees. Osmia rufa, cornuta, hives

When I dismantled the nests of cornets, as far as I remember, the chins were made of something light yellow-green, most likely from finely chewed leaves. And here are the final traffic jams from chernozem. I once saw a pit in the ground where female cornets flocked for land in huge numbers

This Who?

In my opinion, Andrena is something. By the way, this photo under the original name (I would even say very original) migrated to the site "Bees of Belarus", which, as I previously thought, is maintained by competent people.

So is it like intraspecific mutation now, or intrageneric? Some very strong variability! That is, in one genus of Eucera there are species-Eucera with two cells, and the network with three?

A single view can't have a different number of cells. There are types with two, and there are with three. They belong to different subgenera.

And another thing I remembered - once, also in the spring, I saw an incredible picture in the steppe-huge red bees, similar to bumblebees, were digging burrows in the ground, and there were so many of them that there was a rumble in the ravine, probably they were eucers, females, since the antennae were short.

Maybe eucera, or maybe cubitalia. Or there may be large andrenas.

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

They may fight, but Eucerae usually have breeding grounds near their nests. Fights on flowers are more common for bees with territorial behavior, which wait for females on flowers (for example, antidias).

When I dismantled the nests of cornets, as far as I remember, the chins were made of something light yellow-green, most likely from finely chewed leaves. And here are the final traffic jams from chernozem. I once saw a hole in the ground, where the female cornets flocked to get the land in huge numbers

Cornuta and rufa bicornis have all partitions made of earth. From the leaves, other species build.

  This Who?

In my opinion, Andrena is something. By the way, this photo under the original name (I would even say very original) migrated to the site "Bees of Belarus", which, as I used to think, is run by competent people.

Andren, I think. But certainly not Osmium Rufus.

Today I went for a ride in the surrounding area, I didn't see any osmium. Although, maybe they are now all on apricots, there are very few flowers on the ground in the disturbed places, there are still few dandelions, only small flowers of all sorts.

Well, unless here is such an osmium caught, from the word wasp

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Hmm, we'll have to take it apart again and study the yellow-green substance in more detail. I wasn't imagining it! Although, perhaps, the scraps of bread with the ground when turning the larvae so mixed...

Pan Stepovoi, what wasp? That's nedoksilokopa ceratina!

Exactly?? Well, this is even better, it would only be phonetically closer to the osmia, and so-phylogenetically I did not know that we have such cases, I thought that someone was closer to the blestyanki )

Turkey was thinking too...

here is the" quarry " for osmium
https://youtu.be/wu-N6MQDhoo

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And it happens so:

Well, here it is clearly visible that there should be a vein, but it did not develop in the ontogenesis of the wing, I also met this. It wasn't about that.

 
And I vote for antofor.

Maybe, but I didn't see red anthophores in early spring, they were all gray or black.

Wow, how much osmium is in this pit!!!
Wow )

What's the pit for, do you mine amber there? )

There's very little osmium left for such a big hole. Probably, the ground is bad, too dry, they prefer to collect wet.

Wow, how much osmium is in this pit!!!
Wow )

What's the pit for, do you mine amber there? )

Of course amber! As well as gold nuggets, coal, oil, gas, if you come across something ancient hoards
The pit really dried up. I'm thinking of making a clay trough and putting a jar of water in it, like a drinking bowl for chickens.
I want to fill the foundation, you need to know how much chernozem will have to save. Alumina started at 1.2 m, and a total of 120 cubic meters will have to be saved... and 150 cubes of clay somewhere to put.
Bees on the partitions are not so much porastaskivayut.
Today I made bumblebee nests in my mother-in-law's garden(they planted the potatoes themselves). I took a photo for memory, how much I buried and what the entrances looked like. Made from improvised materials, took cotton wool from a mattress in an abandoned house http://photo.i.ua/user/7313943/469941/?p=0&r=1278215
Today, red-haired females flew out, there was a "movement"on the roof https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxdZ3XcMfFw

This post was edited by osmia - 11.04.2016 02: 07

Something chernozem is not visible there at all, neither 1.2 m, nor 1.2 cm. And you can see neither sod-podzolite, nor gray forest, in general, fig soil. Only osmia is suitable for traffic jams.

I watched the video-the tin is full, just some pornoule! But why the hive, what had they forgotten?

This post was edited by ENO - 11.04.2016 03: 58

There's very little osmium left for such a big hole. Probably, the ground is bad, too dry, they prefer to collect wet.
But aren't they red enough?


We have a lot of them in the spring. And in the Mykolaiv region, in theory, it should be similar, since, judging by his photos of Pan Stepov, their entomofauna is about 90 percent similar to ours.

Ah, well, we have a lot of them, it's probably A. plumipes, but I somehow did not associate them with red, for me they are rather brown (compared to the bright red backs of some Eucer and andren).

The taste and color of markers are different. Here is another male of this anthophora, this one is a little paler caught:







And the female:



By the way, how does it nest? I regularly see females both digging the ground and exploring the brickwork, all of which seem to be the same species. What is this supposed to mean?

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They usually nest on vertical" walls " made of dense clay, for example, along cliffs along rivers, etc. I also brought out Sceliphron destillatorium from the nests stuck in the holes of the stone wall, but they did not use its cells, but simply gnawed their moves in the old nest, since it is more convenient to gnaw in it than in stones))).

Oh, my God!!!!!! Just now I'm standing on the balcony and I see-in one of the reed pipes, quite large, by the way, an osmium has flown in, an OSMIUM!!!
OSMIA!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRR

This is definitely HER now!

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And we have such walls made of dense clay just very, very little and they are all far from urban development. But on the contrary, there are a lot of anthophores in the city. So, apparently, they have mastered other substrates. I have repeatedly seen how they dig holes directly in the horizontal surface of the black soil in flower beds, one in general I have on the balcony in a box for growing plants nested. And now, it turns out, they can also do it in the walls...

It seems that Pan sipped an extra-curricular spoonful of homemade wine before Easter because of such unprecedented happiness. It is difficult to explain such a violent reaction to others. I also cleaned the balcony door today, they are flying there at full speed, looking for cornut. But in the plastic tube hanging from last year, no one has touched the web yet. So it looks like the nest-building activity has just begun. Interestingly, in the hole from the cable, where the osmia settle annually, the earth plug is intact. Either the brood has died, or the bees haven't come out yet. Although it is possible that this is already a fresh signet, and I did not notice the design, it happens very quickly for them. But in any case, it's time to make beehives. I've already sawed the reeds, so I just need to tie them up.

This is definitely HER now!

Uh-huh, Cornuta.

And we have such walls made of dense clay just very, very little and they are all far from urban development. But on the contrary, there are a lot of anthophores in the city. So, apparently, they have mastered other substrates. I have repeatedly seen how they dig holes directly in the horizontal surface of the black soil in flower beds, one in general I have on the balcony in a box for growing plants nested. And now, it turns out, they can also do it in the walls...

I saw most of the A. plumipes nests in Dronovka, where there is a nice cliff made of clay behind the village...

I didn't ruin any wine, d.. ummm there's enough joy as it is) But what Ezox rolled up, that his osmia nests are designed, is a question.. and where is Osmium's design office ?)))
And about the balcony door-scared, is that the same, all winter the door was "battened down"? =0 Harsh winter in Yuzovka..
Well, the fact that "it's time to make hives" is yes, of course, when else to do if not at the beginning of osmium activity, and even better in May to start making them.. just for the next season will be, where to hurry then )))))

Why open the balcony door in winter? Toughen up? Keep warm! Yatsenyuk strictly bequeathed it to you!

Hurry up when catching fleas. And I made the hive just in time - now the females of the cornets have just begun to explore the walls, before that all the flowers were sitting up and the males themselves were sitting up.




To the transparent tube that has been hanging in another place since last year, today the first osmia visited, but flew away. It was the web inside that seemed to confuse her. It turned out to have a whole fishing net and a small steatode to boot. Evicted her, maybe now the bee will populate. Last year, two replacement tubes were placed in the same sleeve in a row. Only in the first one everything was overgrown with mold, and in the second one there was only one cell with almost no bread, the larva died (fell to the floor and was lost) when trying to supplement the purchased bee stalk. I hope it works out better this time.

But osmia is nothing. In the flower box anthophores settled, and this time not one, but a whole bunch, at the same time up to three pieces curls. They started digging holes under the pots.

Anthophores are certainly cool, but it was necessary to take a picture of them with at least some kind of nose, otherwise it turned out to be some kind of tin)))

I don't have such a "nose" to take pictures of bees on the fly from a meter away. Here Pan has such a "nose", it seems, there is, but there are no suitable photos of bees on the net - a paradox. Osmia Pan, by the way, is much more creepy. than my atophores.

This post was edited by ENO-13.04.2016 21: 50

Today, balcony anthophores have become noticeably less timid, apparently, they are used to calling me. They don't even pay attention to the flashbulb. They dig. They do this in an interesting way: they vibrate their entire body, sending vibrations to the mandibles, and slowly sink into the substrate. Like a jackhammer! When the crumbs accumulate a lot, they climb out, shoveling it out with their feet like a bulldozer bucket. Once again, I am convinced that almost all human technical gadgets were invented much earlier by nature.

There are a lot of bees, at least four individuals already have their burrows, and a few more are searching for places. One of them is already wearing a leg brace.

So far, no one is interested in the Fabre hive posted yesterday. In general, cornuts are not shown in the" water area " of my balcony. But on the next balcony they flock in droves, it feels as if there is a beehive for 1000 reeds hung up. But the transparent tube was unexpectedly visited by Rufa / bicornis. I don't recall ever having them on my balcony before. But it's too early to be happy, so far the bee hasn't returned.








That's how, and without any socks! And Pan has obvious problems with the localization of the place of growth of hands, since with all the multiplicity of optics, he could not make such a picture.

This post was edited by ENO - 14.04.2016 16: 18

Yes, such shabby and creepy photos I really probably can't do)))

Well, so a feather in the ass, feet in hands, you give nezasharpannye awesome, but only so that they were anthophora (come on-any bee) in flight. The only pictures of Pan that have been published so far - osmia near the Fabre hive - might as well have been taken through a snot lens.

By the way, Sharpe in the usual sense in the photos from the extreme post is not at all. Only the last one passed deconvolution in Smartdeblue-autofocus refused to catch a flying bee.



This post was edited by ENO-14.04.2016 20: 20

I have some bees flying on my site, not 100% osmia, it is impossible to catch them in the frame. Fluffy brown-gray, others completely black as soot, slightly larger than the female cornutus.
"peeping" clues are filled in, and a spider is already lying in one aisle.
As one osmievod wrote, it is more convenient for a bee to sit on an oblique cut. Indeed, the speed of climbing in front and back is different, in a straight cut they will climb for several seconds longer. And sometimes they don't fall, the wings get in the way, the belly gets in the wrong hole..

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... "peeping" clues are filled in, a spider is already lying in one aisle ...

But this is interesting. The fact that these are NOT bees is 100%. And who exactly, you need to trace. For local Trypoxylon species ,the "hole" is too big. Sceliphron sculpts individual clay cells. Probably Pison atrum or someone from the Pompilidae.

Well, so a feather in the ass, feet in hands, you give nezasharpannye awesome, but only so that they were anthophora (come on-any bee) in flight. The only pictures of Pan that have been published so far - osmia near the Fabre hive - might as well have been taken through a snot lens...

And that they are so blinded to osmium. In my opinion, megahills are more interesting.

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Russian Fabre hives are very harsh - they are sawn with a grinder

We have very few megahils (compared to osmia), and they are mostly found far from city blocks.

Russian Fabre hives are very harsh - they are sawn with a grinder
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They are cut with a grinder and installed in place with a sledgehammer! Fabre never dreamed...

  
.. But we have very few megahils (compared to osmia), and they are mostly found far from city blocks.

Oh, by the way, I forgot to add that it was a "macro report", as I personally imagine it.

And we have 25 megachilid species and 23 osmium species (I just started doing an article on megachilids of the Crimea, these are the numbers that are obtained).

can you give me a link to read it?