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Home / Science / Biology / Flora and Fauna / Animalia / Arthropoda / Insecta / Hymenoptera / Bees / Osmia
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- Blue Orchard and Hornfaced Bees - Sources of advice and information, and lists of suppliers, from the University of Idaho.
www.uidaho.edu/pses/Strickler/SolitaryBees/supply.htm
- Blue Orchard Bee - The blue orchard bee (also called the orchard mason bee, Osmia lignaria) is a solitary bee native to North America.
www.pollination.com/Managed_Bees_HTML/Blue_Orchard_Bee_HTML/blueorchardbee.htm
- Creating a Bee Garden - On techniques for encouraging Osmia bees in North America.
www.uidaho.edu/pses/Strickler/SolitaryBees/beegarden.htm
- Hornfaced Bee for Orchard Pollination - Ongoing West Virginia University investigations into the use of these bees on apple orchards.
www.wvu.edu/~agexten/ipm/insects/pollinat/progress/romney.htm
- Insect Note 109 @ North Carolina State University - How to raise and manage Orchard Mason Bees for the home garden
www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Other/orn_t109/not109.html
- Mason Bees - An article from seattletimes.com.
www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/bees_020998.html
- Orchard Mason Bee - On this bee of North America, also called the Blue Orchard Bee.
www.interchg.ubc.ca/wchase/HTML/Bees,Bees,Bees.html
- Orchard Mason Bees - The orchard mason bee is slightly smaller than a honey bee and a shiny dark blue in color.
gardening.wsu.edu/library/inse006/inse006.htm
- The Orchard Mason Bee - Devoted solely to laying eggs, gathering pollen and nectar for its young, these bees are extremely efficient at pollination. What's appealing to the busy farmer is that mason bees require 10 to 15 minutes worth of attention yearly and will increase about 5 times in population each spring.
www.bc-alter.net/fhudon/MB5.HTM
- The Orchard Mason Bee - A page from the North Carolina State University describing how this bee can be an effective pollinator.
www.virtualorchard.net/glfgn/february1998/masonbee.html
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