| 1. | The world's largest bee, the giant mason bee, occurs here and on nearby Halmahera.
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| 2. | The red mason bee, " Osmia rufa ", is found across the European continent.
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| 3. | The usual pollinators are the common carder bumble bee, honey bee, and red mason bee.
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| 4. | Orchard mason bees arrange their nests as a series of partitions, with one egg per partition.
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| 5. | "' Megachilinae "'is a subfamily of bees, the largest subfamily in the family Megachilidae, the mason bees.
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| 6. | Pollinators include mason bees, small carpenter bees, cuckoo bees, halictid bees, syrphid flies, tachinid flies, blow flies, and others.
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| 7. | While solitary females each make individual nests, some species . such as the European mason bee " Hoplitis anthocopoides ", and the colonies.
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| 8. | Mason bees, which use leaves and mud to build their nests, will pack the holes with eggs and pollen to feed their young.
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| 9. | The cavity nest of the mason bee can host " Ptinus sexpunctatus ", the six-spotted spider beetle, which feeds on other dead or decaying insects.
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| 10. | These wasps have a number of adaptions which have evolved to equip them for their life cycle . " Chrysis ignita " parasitize mason bees in particular.
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