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Definition of mining bee in English: mining beenoun A solitary bee that builds long underground tunnels containing nest chambers. Andrena and other genera, family Apidae Example sentencesExamples - Mortar bees excavate a chamber approximately 20 mm deep in soft mortar joints in brick walls, whereas mining bees excavate chambers in the soft sandy soil of lawns and gardens.
- But no, its a cleptoparasitic Cuckoo bee, the likes of which preys on mining bees like the one above.
- Halictid mining bees nest in tunnels dug in the ground.
- This past spring and early summer we have had a number of mining bees submitted to the clinic.
- Two scarce mining bees have been found: Melitta leporina, which occurs in the Jekyll garden, along with its cleptoparasite Nomada flavopicta.
- Within the turf eight mining bee larvae were found, measuring up to 1cm long.
- The use of insecticide to control mining bees is not successful as insecticide breaks down with UV light.
- This is a female of the impressive mining bee Andrena nitida (sometimes still referred to by its junior synonym A. pubescens).
- Some bees such as the mining bees that are usually found on lawns are unable to pierce the skin therefore are not a big threat to humans.
- Lured inside by droplets of sweet fluid (lady's slippers don't secrete true nectar), the pollinator, most often a mining bee, can escape only through one of two small exits at the sac's rear.
- Several of the more distinctive species of mining bee from the family Andrenidae have been illustrated.
- Once this flight of mining bees dies out, there will be no activity in the area until the following spring.
- I have what would seem to be a very active colony of mining bees in both my front and rear garden.
- Most of the sites of ground nesting bees we have examined where made by mining bees or digger bees and posed no hazard to the landowner.
- There are many species of mining bee throughout the world.
- Some species of mining bees may be attracted in large numbers to swimming pools.
- The cuckoo bee is parasitic on the mining bee.
- The larger mining bees all have some brown markings, and the arrangement of brown and black bits lets you know the species.
- The bilberry mining bee is an even more specialised solitary bee, using only this single plant species to gather food, and has seldom been recorded in the Peak District.
- The female mining bee stocks each cell with pollen and nectar she collects from flowers and then deposits an egg on the food mass.
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