Leafcutting Bee Biology & Management
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Leafcutting Bee Publications
X-ray analysis is one of the techniques used to determine health and mortality factors inside leafcutting bee cocoons. These slides represent examples taken from a series of plates that were taken over a period of 20 years and show types of parasites, predators, diseases, and live stages of the Alfalfa Leafcutting Bee.
Click on any of these thumbnail photos to see a larger version of the picture.
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- Dark Pupae
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- Emerging adult chewing through cadaver
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- Healthy bee larvae
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- Leafcutting Bee larvae
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- Nemognathat
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- Trichodes larvae
