Osmia

The corridors occupied by the Osmia are the holes which the Mason-bee dug in order to reach daylight from the deep layers.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

But the Osmia is a stay-at-home: she returns to her birth-place and clings to it with a patience extremely difficult to exhaust.

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Do they prove that the Osmia is a geometrician, employing a strict measure based on the length of her body?

Bramble-Bees and Others Jean-Henri Fabre 1869

Leaf-cutting bees (Megachile spp.), mason bees (Osmia spp), honeybees and flies are the main pollinators in the tropics.

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On emerging from the cell the Osmia cuts out with its powerful jaws an ovate lid, nearly as large as one side of the cell.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Our smallest and most abundant species is the little green Osmia simillima.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

In the Harris collection are the cells and specimens of Osmia pacifica, the peaceful Osmia, which, according to the manuscript notes of Dr. Harris, is found in the perfect state in earthen cells beneath stones.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

In like manner another Cuckoo bee (Coelioxys) is parasitic on Megachile and Saropoda; Stelis is a parasite on Osmia, the

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

The habits of the little blue or green Mason bees (Osmia) are quite varied.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Curtis found two hundred and thirty cocoons of a British species (Osmia paretina), placed on the under side of a flat stone, of which one-third were empty.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872