Life Cycle of the Solitary Melittidae Bees, The

Synopsis: Looks at three genera which make up the melittidae bees, whose life cycle is intimately involved with the flowering of specific plants from which they feed. The major part of the film considers the biology of macropis.
Language: English
Country: France
Medium: Film; Video; Film. 16mm. sd. col. 27 min. Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min.
Technical information: Black-and-white / Sound
Year of production: 1979
Availability: OUT OF DISTRIBUTION
Uses: Illustrative material for such topics as insight into the behaviour of solitary bees, as an example of co-evolution, and to show an intermediate group between primitive and fully colonial types of ‘Apoidea’.*
Subjects: Biology
Keywords: bees

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