A female Texas Osmia in Balndy, Virginia (8/3/2019). This bee is part of an experiment run by Dawson Little, an undergraduate, working with T'ai Roulston and Kate LeCroy at Blandy Experiment Station in Virginia (UVA).
A female Texas Osmia in Not Maryland (8/3/2019). This bee is part of an experiment run by Dawson Little, an undergraduate, working with T'ai Roulston and Kate LeCroy at Blandy Experiment Station in Virginia (UVA).
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5 Records
Status
A specialist of native thistles that wasn't discovered in Maryland until October 2013.
Relationships
Relies on the pollen of native thistles as a food source for larvae.
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A female Osmia texana collected in Carroll Co., Maryland (10/30/2013). A first state record for Maryland collected by Tim McMahon. Photographed by Aaman Mengis.
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A female Osmia texana collected in Carroll Co., Maryland (10/30/2013). A first state record for Maryland collected by Tim McMahon. Photographed by Aaman Mengis.
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A female Osmia texana collected in Carroll Co., Maryland (10/30/2013). A first state record for Maryland collected by Tim McMahon. Photographed by Aaman Mengis.
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A female Texas Osmia in Balndy, Virginia (8/3/2019). This bee is part of an experiment run by Dawson Little, an undergraduate, working with T'ai Roulston and Kate LeCroy at Blandy Experiment Station in Virginia (UVA).
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A female Texas Osmia in Not Maryland (8/3/2019). This bee is part of an experiment run by Dawson Little, an undergraduate, working with T'ai Roulston and Kate LeCroy at Blandy Experiment Station in Virginia (UVA).
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Source: Wikipedia
| Osmia texana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Megachilidae |
| Genus: | Osmia |
| Species: | O. texana
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| Binomial name | |
| Osmia texana Cresson, 1872
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Osmia texana, the Texas osmia, is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It is found in Central America and North America.[1][2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Osmia texana Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Osmia texana". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
- ^ "Osmia texana species Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-09-24.
Further reading
[edit]- Ascher, J.S.; Pickering, J. (2019). "Discover Life bee species guide and world checklist (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)". Retrieved 2019-07-02.
External links
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