Ceratina calcarata

Ceratina calcarata, the spurred ceratina, is a species of carpenter bee in the family Apidae.[1][2][3][4] It is found in eastern North America.[1]

male

Ceratina calcarata
Female
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Ceratina
Species:
C. calcarata
Binomial name
Ceratina calcarata
Robertson, 1900

Life History

A small, mostly but not completely solitary bee that may be important for crop pollination. The mother bee lays her eggs in a hollowed-out pithy stem, where the larvae are fed with pollen provisions, and develop into pupae and then overwinter inside the stem, to emerge and breed in spring. If the mother survives the winter, she often recruits her eldest daughter, typically born smaller than the others, as a worker, whose duties including cleaning, and this daughter dies come winter and never has a chance to reproduce; one author has called this daughter a "Cinderella bee".[5]

References
  1. "Ceratina calcarata Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  2. "Ceratina calcarata species details". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  3. "Ceratina calcarata". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  4. "Ceratina calcarata Species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-05-04.
  5. Embry, Paige. Our Native Bees.

Further reading


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