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Osmia (mason bees) — RMBL Knowledge Commons

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Osmia

Common names: mason bees, solitary bee, bees

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Megachilidae

Regional status: native

Roles: pollinator, study subject

ITIS TSN: 154377

Synonyms: Osmia, Osmia sp., Osmia spp., Osmia sp2, Osmia sp1, Osmia sp3

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 24 | Mentions: 30

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Knowledge graph centered on Osmia with 76 nodes and 215 connections. Top connected: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Crested Butte, Delphinium, Bombus.

Publications (24)

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: study subject

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: study subject

Temporal variation in high elevation plant-pollinator communities

2022Role: pollinator

Tritrophic mutualisms in a changing climate

2022Role: pollinator

Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set

2021Frontiers of Ecology & EvolutionRole: pollinator

Nectar addition changes pollinator behavior but not plant reproduction in pollen rewarding <i> Lupinus argenteus</i>

2021American Journal of BotanyRole: pollinator

Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology

2020American Journal of BotanyRole: pollinator

Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

Co-occurring Species

Bombus

Apidae20 shared papers

solitary bees

19 shared papers

Megachilidae

Megachilidae17 shared papers

Hymenoptera

16 shared papers

Megachile

Megachilidae14 shared papers

Apis mellifera

Apidae12 shared papers

Asteraceae

Asteraceae11 shared papers

Delphinium

Ranunculaceae9 shared papers

Andrena

Andrenidae8 shared papers

Bombus flavifrons

Apidae8 shared papers

2020Biological Conservation doi 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108821Role: pollinator

Niche breadth changes in response to environmental perturbation: the impact of early snowmelt on subalpine plant-pollinator specialization

2019Role: pollinator

Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: pollinator

The effect of nutrient availability on floral display and pollinator interactions

2019Role: pollinator

The individual and combined effects of snowmelt timing and frost exposure on the reproductive success of montane forbs

2019Journal of EcologyRole: pollinator

Evaluating Critical Thermal Tolerances of Solitary Bees

2018Role: study subject

Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

2018Role: study subject

Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities

2017Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: study subject

Variability in the effectiveness of <i>Penstemon strictus</i> pollinators and the role that water availability plays

2017Role: pollinator

Impacts of early snow removal and frost on the reproductive success of <i>Delphinium nuttallianum</i>

2016Role: pollinator

Mutualistic Networks Over Time: The Effects of Changing Floral Abundances on Plant- Pollinator Interactions

2016Role: pollinator

Phenological change in a spring ephemeral: implications for pollination and plant fitness

2016Global Change BiologyRole: pollinator

Does stigma-anther separation prevent sexual interference in dwarf bluebells (<i>Mertensia fusiformis</i>)?

2009Role: pollinator

Is there a positive correlation between bee size and size parameters of the flowers the bees visit for pollen to provision their nests?

2009Role: study subject

Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2009Environmental EntomologyRole: study subject

Pollen limitation and cleistogamy in subalpine <i>Viola praemorsa</i>

2008BotanyRole: pollinator

The effect of sampling effort on species richness estimates of flower visitors

2007Role: text_match