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Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee - Megachile rotundata
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Observations in Montana Natural Heritage Program Database
Number of Observations: 10
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References
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Do you know of a citation we're missing?- Burkle L.A., M.P. Simanonok, J.S. Durney, J.A. Myers, and R.T. Belote. 2019. Wildfires influence abundance, diversity, and intraspecific and interspecific trait variation of native bees and flowering plants across burned and unburned landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7(252):1-14.
- Delphia, C.M., Griswold, T., Reese, E.G., O'Neill, K.M., and Burkle, L.A. 2019. Checklist of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from small, diversified vegetable farms in south-western Montana. Biodiversity Data Journal: e30062
- Donahoo, C.K. 2019. Mortality dynamics and life tables of Megachile rotundata. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University. 58 p.
- Doublet, V., Y. Poeschl, A. Gogol-Doring, C. Alaux, D. Annoscia, C. Aurori, S.M. Barribeau, O.C. Bedoya-Reina, M.J.F. Brown, J.C. Bull, M.L. Flenniken, D.A. Galbraith, E. Genersch, S. Gisder, I. Grosse, H.L. Holt, D. Hultmark, H.M. Lattorff, Y. Le Conte, F. Manfredini, D.P. McMahon, R.F.A. Moritz, F. Nazzi, E.L. Nino, K. Nowick, R.P. van Rij, R.J. Paxton, and C.M. Grozinger. 2017. Unity in defence: honeybee workers exhibit conserved molecular responses to diverse pathogens. BMC Genomics 18: 207. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3597-6
Jensen, P.D. 2001. The foraging and nesting behavior of four solitary-nesting bee species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in the Gallatin Valley, Montana. M.Sc. Thesis. Bozeman, Montana: Montana State University. 76 p.- McMenamin, A.J., and M.L. Flenniken. 2018. Recently identified bee viruses and their impact on bee pollinators. Current Opinion in Insect Science 26:120-129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2018.02.009
- O'Neill, K.M., C.M. Delphia, and T.L. Pitts-Singer. 2015. Seasonal trends in the condition of nesting females of a solitary bee: wing wear, lipid content, and oocyte size. PeerJ 3(e90). 10/7717/peerj.930.
- O'Neill, R.P. 2004. Seasonal and spatial patterns of mortality and sex ration in the Alfafa Leafcutting Bee, Megachile rotundata. Bozeman, Montana: Montana State University. 69 p.
- Piccolomini, A.M., S.R. Whiten, M.L. Flenniken, K.M. O'Neill, and R.K.D. Peterson. 2018. Acute toxicity of permethrin, deltamethrin, and etofenprox to the alfalfa leafcutting bee. Journal of Economic Entomology 111(3):1001-1005 https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jee/toy014
- Reese, E.G., L.A. Burkle, C.M. Delphia, and T. Griswold. 2018. A list of bees from three locations in the Northern Rockies Ecoregion (NRE) of western Montana. Biodiversity Data Journal 6: e27161.
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