Posts Tagged: Habropoda miserabilis
Why Silver Digger Bees Are Like Gold
Why silver digger bees are like gold... Remember those "long lost" silver digger bees found last...
Close-up of female silver digger bee, Habropoda miserabilis, taken at Waldport, Ore. in 2015. (Copyrighted Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz. Used with Permission)
Habropoda miserabilis male and female—the male is mate-guarding the female after mating with her, preventing her from mating with other males. (Copyrighted photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz. Used with permission)
This graphic, the work of Leslie Saul-Gershenz, details information on the male and female of the species.
UC Davis Entomologist Lends Expertise on the Silver Digger Bees at the Presidio
UC Davis entomologist Leslie Saul-Gershenz lent her expertise when a volunteer discovered what...
Close-up of female silver digger bee, Habropoda miserabilis, taken at Waldport, Ore. in 2015. (Copyrighted Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz. Used with Permission)
Habropoda miserabilis male and female--the male is mate-guarding the female after mating with her, preventing her from mating with other males. (Copyrighted Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz. Used with Permission)
This graphic by Leslie Saul-Gershenz details information about the male and female species.
Groundbreaking Case of Exploitation, Deception: What UC Davis-UC Riverside Scientists Learned About Parasitic Blister Beetles and Digger Bees
DAVIS--A parasitic blister beetle thrives in digger bee nests through intricate exploitation...
A male Habropoda pallida bee from the Mojave Desert covered with Meloe franciscanus triungulins (first install larvae). These triungulins will transfer from the male bee to female bees during mating and then deplane from the female bee when she enters her nest. The blister beetle larvae feed on the pollen and nectar provisions inside the bee nest and then emerge as an adult beetle the next winter (one beetle per each bee cell). (Copyrighted photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz)
A male solitary bee Habropoda miserabilis after a contact with a Meloe franciscanus triungulin aggregation in Oregon. The triungulins attach to the male bee to hitch a ride to a female H. miserabilis bee. (Copyrighted Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz)
Leslie Saul-Gershenz at work in the Mojave Desert. (Photo by Norman Gershenz)
The Amazing Bee-Parasite Research of Leslie Saul-Gershenz
Evolutionary ecologist Leslie Saul-Gershenz goes places where many have been but few have ever...
Leslie Saul-Gershenz in the Channel Island National Park conducting a native bee survey.
Leslie Saul-Gershenz doing field work on bee nesting beds of the solitary bee, Nomia melanderi, in Walla Walla, Wash. (2010-2015).
A digger bee, Habropoda pallida, with blister beetle larvae. (Photo by Leslie Saul-Gershenz)