Beyond The Hive: The Weird World Of Native Bees

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Planting tomatoes in the garden this year? Better hope you have bumblebees too, since tomato flowers require a good shaking to obtain the pollen out.

“What the bumblebee does is grab a tomato flower, curve its abdominal area around the bottom of the tomato flower, and then shiver its wing muscles at a particular frequency, shaking pollen from the holes like a salt shaker,” states Paige Embry, author of Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Conserve Them.

When Embry discovered of that interesting phenomenon, she embarked on a reporting journey to document the lives of the continent’s wild, native pollinators, of which there are some 4,000 species. Some secrete silk (Hylaeus spp.), she writes, while others shave fuzzy plants to build luxurious pillows for their eggs (Anthidium spp.). Still others nest in increased stems, cow patties, and snail shells (Osmia spp.).

And though Embry points out the most widely known pollinators– the non-native honeybees– she devotes much of the book to lesser-known agricultural helpers like the blue orchard bee (Osmia lignaria) and the alkali bee (Nomia melanderi), a respected pollinator of alfalfa.

In this sector, she shares tales of these uncommon bees, and Susannah Lerman of the United States Forest Service joins to talk about how attracting more native bees to your yard may be as simple as laying off the yard mowing.

Check out an excerpt of Embry’s book and take a more detailed look at the wonderful world of bees listed below:

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The hairy male Habropoda excellens, the three-spotted digger bee. Drawn from Our Native Bees © 2018 by Paige Embry. Published by Timber Press, Portland, OR. Used by approval of the publisher. All rights scheduled.
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< img alt=””height=”595″src =”https://bizwhiznetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/p068_Osli_SD-min.jpg”width=” 1000 “> A male Osmia lignaria. Drawn from Our Native Bees © 2018 by Paige Embry. Released by Timber Press, Portland, OR. Used by approval of the publisher. All
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rights booked. Halictus ligatus, covered in pollen. aken from Our Native Bees © 2018 by Paige Embry. Published by Timber Press, Portland, OR. Used by permission of the publisher. All
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rights booked. A female Hoplitis fulgida, which lines her nest with chewed up leaves and pebbles. Drawn from Our Native Bees © 2018 by Paige Embry. Released by Lumber Press, Portland, OR. Utilized by approval of the publisher. All rights reserved.
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< img alt =” “height=”1500″src=”https://bizwhiznetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/p147B_Coru_RC-min.jpg”width=”1000 “> A female of the cleptoparasitic species Coelioxys rufitarsis, sleeping upside down. Taken from Our Native Bees © 2018 by Paige Embry. Released by Lumber Press, Portland, OR. Used by approval of the publisher. All rights scheduled.
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Males of the Peponapis pruinosa often sleep in the flowers of squash plants. Drawn from Our Native Bees © 2018 by Paige Embry. Published by Timber Press, Portland, OR. Utilized by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.
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Xylocopa virginica male with giant eyes. Taken from Our Native Bees © 2018 by Paige Embry. Released by Timber Press, Portland, OR. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.
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Hylaeus modestus, a masked bee. Taken from Our Native Bees © 2018 by Paige Embry. Released by Lumber Press, Portland, OR. Used by authorization of the publisher. All rights scheduled.

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Paige Embry is author of Our Native Bees: The United States and Canada’s Endangered Pollinators and the Battle to Conserve Them (2018, Wood Press). She’s based in Seattle, Washington.

Susannah Lerman is a research study ecologist with the USDA Forest Service based in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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