Nests and seasonal cycle of Neocorynura pubescens in Colombia (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

• Michener, Charles D. ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Kansas

     University of Kansas

     City of Lawrence, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Revista de Biología Tropical, ISSN 0034-7744, Vol. 25, Nº. 1, 1977 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Volume 25 - Regular number 1 - July 1977; 1–11)
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Nests and seasonal cycle of Neocorynura pubescens in Colombia (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)
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  • In the Dept. de Antioquia, Colombia, Neocorynura pubescens is active throughout the year. Females collect pollen from weedy Compositae. Many nests in the banks of a small ditch were surprisingly similar in number of inhabitants, structure, manner of construction, and re-use to those of the strikingly different looking species, N. fumipennis, in Costa Rica. Mating presumably occurs in the nesting area; a clump of males prepared to pass the night on a perch in that area.