On 25/12/2012 1:45 AM, randy oliver wrote:

>> that start the season as a fertilized female and then accrue workers during
>> the season?
>
> If they have workers, they would no longer be called "solitary bees."
>
>
They do start the season as solitary bees, in the sense that they have
to feed themselves and their brood to start the colony.  As they have
overwintered I assume they have little in the way of body reserves left
so must forage.  When, or indeed do they, eventually change to being fed
by the workers?

Geoff Manning

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