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Anther: the male reproductive part of a flower. Contains pollen.
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Bee: an insect belonging to the superfamily Apoidea
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Brood: developing larvae, usually in social insects
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Cocoon: a pupa surrounded by a silk covering produced by the
insect
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Colony: a group of social insects having a queen and workers
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Diapause: a hibernation like state in insects
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Drone: a reproductive male in social insects
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Flight Activity: in leafcutting bees, the amount of flying
bees near the nests or shelter
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Gallon: 10,000 leafcutting bees
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Gregarious: living in groups but not forming a true social
colony
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Hatch: emergence of adults insects
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Incubate: to maintain in an environment suitable for development
or hatching. In leafcutting bees, cocoons with mature larvae are warmed
after diapause to promote adult emergence.
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Larva: in insects, an immature form, not resembling the adult;
pl. larvae
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Non-Apis bee: a bee not belonging to the genus Apis. A bee
other than the Honeybee
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Oligolectic: foraging from a few species of flowers
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Parasitoid: an insect that feeds on or in another insect, and
causes death in the host insect; one host is killed in the life of the
parasitoid
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Pistil: the flower part that contains the ovules
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Pollen: the male gamete from a seed plant
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Pollen ball/Pollen mass: an unconsumed clump of pollen in a
bee nest. Can be caused by lack of an egg laid, egg mortality, early
larval mortality.
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Pollen bee: any bee other than the honeybee. See non-Apis bee.
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Pollenizer: a plant that is a source of pollen
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Pollination: the transfer of pollen from a stamen to a stigma
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Pollinator: an agent that causes pollen to be transfered from
one flower to another
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Polylectic: foraging from many species of flowers
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Polyvoltine: having multiple generations in a year
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Predator: an animal (can be an insect) that feeds on other
animals (also can be an insect) and consumes many prey in it's life
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Prepupa: a fully mature larva prior to becoming a pupa
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Pupa: a stage bewteen larva and adult; a resting stage, no
feeding takes place; pl. pupae
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Queen: a female reproductive in social insects
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Social: insects that live in a organized groups and display
a division of labor and overlapping generations
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Solitary: insects that do not display a divsion of labor and
each individual is reproductive; non-social.
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Stamen: the flower part that produces the male gamete, consisting
of a filament and an anther
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Stigma: part of the pistil that receives pollen, the female
part of the flower Species
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Teneral: a newly emerged adult insect, with a soft integument
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Univoltine: having a single generation in a year
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Wasp: an insect of the order Hymenoptera, usually with a hard
shiny body, usually with biting mouthparts, and a predatory or parasitic
life style
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Worker: a non-reproductive female in social insects
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