Male sleeping aggregation of multiple Eucerini bee genera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Chapada Diamantina, Bahia, Brazil

By

Mahlmann, Thiago
Hipólito, Juliana
Oliveira, Favízia Freitas de

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014-09-12

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

2

Pages

1--6

Subjects

Long-horned bees , Melissodes , Melissoptila

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.2.e1556
eLocator: e1556

 

Abstract

Males of some groups of bees have to find a place outside the nests to sleep, sometimes forming “male sleeping aggregations”. Here we report the first record of “dense” male sleeping aggregation of two different genera of Eucerini bees observed in Bahia, Brazil. We discuss the possible aim of this kind of aggregation as well the plant utilized on aggregate.