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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies (Hymenoptera) » Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps » Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees » Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees (Apidae) » Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees (Apinae) » Long-horned bees (Eucerini) » Squash bee (Peponapis)

Genus Peponapis - Squash bee

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Internet References
Leafcutter bees on squash blossom. Genus Megachile? Megachile rotundata? - Peponapis Bee on morning glory - Peponapis pruinosa - male Squash Bee? - Peponapis pruinosa Peponapis stern view - Peponapis pruinosa Is this Colletes? - Peponapis pruinosa - male Peponapis? - Peponapis pruinosa - male Peponapis? - Peponapis pruinosa Squash bee - Peponapis pruinosa - Peponapis pruinosa - female
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hymenoptera (Ants, Bees, Wasps and Sawflies)
No Taxon (Aculeata - Bees, Ants, and other Stinging Wasps)
No Taxon (Anthophila (Apoidea) - Bees)
Family Apidae (Cuckoo, Carpenter, Digger, Bumble, and Honey Bees)
Subfamily Apinae (Honey, Bumble, and Digger Bees)
Tribe Eucerini (Long-horned bees)
Genus Peponapis (Squash bee)
Explanation of Names
Author: Robertson 1902.
Numbers
Nearctica lists 6 species.
Michener lists 13 species in the New World.
Range
Throughout the US and Canada and as far south as Argentina.
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Habitat
Found in association with Cucurbitaceae plants, squash, etc. Some are desert bees.
Food
Collects pollen only from Cucurbita (squash, including pumpkins).
Remarks
Solitary ground nesting bees. They line their brood cells with a waxlike material that they secrete.
They are more effective pollinators of Cucurbitaceae than honeybees.
Internet References
USDA Squash Bee Overview.
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The Great sunflower Project
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 16 October, 2006 - 10:21pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, John S. Ascher
Last updated 6 July, 2009 - 2:13pm

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