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species is the
domestic honey bee.
Oligolectic pollinators are
often called oligoleges or
simply specialist pollinators, and this
behavior is
especially common...
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Ecology of the Bee
Habropoda laboriosa (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae), an
Oligolege of
Blueberries (Ericaceae: Vaccinium) in the
Southeastern United States"...
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meaning they
collect pollen from a
range of
flowering plants, but some are
oligoleges (specialists), in that they only
gather pollen from one or a few species...
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pollinate the flowers;
nearly all bee taxa that
visit the
flowers are
oligoleges specialized on the
family Onagraceae. The
family was
named after the genus...
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likely the only bee that can
tolerate its toxins. In turn the bee is an
oligolege, a
species that
specializes in the
pollen of only a few
species of flower...
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genera (Diadasia and Lithurgus) that
contain specialist pollinators (
oligoleges) that
exclusively visit Opuntia. Only a few
Opuntia species, such as O...
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vierecki and
Lasioglossum leucozonium.
While some
halictid species are
oligoleges (e.g.,
Rophites algirus which only
visits the
flowers of
hedgenettle plants...
- "critically imperiled" (S1). The
specialist bee
Osmia brevis,
which is an
oligolege that only
visits Penstemon flowers, was
observed visiting Penstemon caespitosus...
- bees in the
tribe Eucerini;
Peponapis and Xenoglossa. Both
genera are
oligoleges (pollen specialists) on the
plant genus Cucurbita and
closely related...
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Coast of the
United States to the West
Coast and into Mexico. It is an
oligolege,
specializing on a few host plants, the
squashes and
gourds of
genus Cucurbita...
