Leaf-cutting bees (Megachile spp.), mason bees (Osmia spp), honeybees and flies are the main pollinators in the tropics.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

The interesting habits of the Leaf-cutting, or Tailor bee (Megachile), have always attracted attention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

In like manner another Cuckoo bee (Coelioxys) is parasitic on Megachile and Saropoda; Stelis is a parasite on Osmia, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

The Giant Resin Bee (Megachile sculpturalis) is thought to have arrived in North America via cargo ships from China or Japan, probably at the Port of Baltimore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City infoZine Headlines] Reference

The larva (Fig. 23) is longer than that of Megachile, and compared with that of Xylocopa, the different segments are much more convex, giving a serrate outline to the back of the worm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

On the other hand, we can quite easily, without arming the eye with a lens, perceive the mouth-apparatus -- and particularly the mandibles -- of either a honey-eater, such as an Osmia, Chalicodoma or Megachile, or.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

Lastly, to complete the enumeration of the Bees known to me as making their homes in the Mason's cupolas, I must add Megachile apicalis, who piles in each cell a half-dozen or more honey-pots constructed with disks cut from the leaves of the wild rose, and an.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

In the first rank of these free tenants, I will place an Osmia (Osmia cyanoxantha, PEREZ) and a Megachile, or Leaf-cutting Bee (Megachile apicalis, SPIN.) (Cf. "Bramble-dwellers and Others": chapter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

Leaf-cutter (see Megachile).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

Megachile apicalis (see Megachile).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

(Megachile); Chalicodoma pyrrhopeza, GERSTACKER.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

Megachile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

Megachile, 26.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference