Ceratina
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The cosmopolitan bee genus Ceratina, often referred to as small carpenter bees, is the sole lineage of the tribe Ceratinini, and is not closely related to the more familiar carpenter bees. The genus p
Ceratina bifida female 1
Typical interior structure of a small carpenter bee's nest, here built into a dry stem of fennel. The stem cavity is partitioned into cells, each one containing pollen bread and one offspring. In the lowermost cell (on the right), the larva has already hatched. The other two cells still contain eggs.
Ceratina chalcites
Ceratina smaragdula
Apidae
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Apidae is the largest family within the superfamily Apoidea, containing at least 5700 species of bees. The family includes some of the most commonly seen bees, including bumblebees and honey bees, but
Ceratina
…range: Ceratina bifida Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Clade: Pancrustacea Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera Family: Apidae Tribe: Ceratinini Genus: Ceratina Latreille, 1802 Type species Ceratina cucurbitina (Rossi, 1792) Species >200 species Synonyms Ceratine Illiger, 1807…
Apis mellifera Cirsium arvense Keila
Amegilla cingulata—a subfamily Apinae digger bee species, of Australian blue banded bees, approaching tomato flower
Subfamily Nomadinae cuckoo bee species, on flower.
Xylocopa violacea—a subfamily Xylocopinae carpenter bee, on flower.