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Subject:
Pronounce 'Megachile sculpturalis'
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Jon C Peacock <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 19:06:36 EDT
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Greeting all,
This old man would be pleased to learn how to pronounce megachile
(megachilid ?) sclupturalis.  Am I to understand it is a bee as in
Bumble(hummer) (bombus) bee?   As I understand Doug Yanega in Brazil, it
is a bee, I think.  What does it do to a colony of honey bees.  Why
should we be looking over our shoulders for this  Asian species.  ABC &
XYZ has information on  the Megachile rotundata, seems it is a leaf
cutter.  A benign creature as far as our honey bees are concerned.   A
solitary bee, the M. rotundata will pasture on legume species.  Prefers
Alfalfa it says here.   Regards Jon C. Peacock [log in to unmask]
 
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