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VOLTINISM IN MEGACHILE ROTUNDATA (MEGACHILIDAE: HYMENOPTERA) IN SOUTHERN ALBERTA12

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

M. D. Krunic
M. D. Krunic
Affiliation:
Research Station, Canada Department of Agriculture, Lethbridge, Alberta
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Abstract

Almost 40% of the cells of Megachile rotundata (F.) from the earliest completed tunnels in the hives produced as second-generation bees. This percentage rapidly decreased in the later completed tunnels. The difference between wing venation of bees that emerged in spring and of second-generation bees that emerged in summer appears to be related to voltinism.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 104 , Issue 2 , February 1972 , pp. 185 - 188
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1972

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