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- Anther: the male reproductive part of a flower. Contains pollen.
- Bee: an insect belonging to the superfamily Apoidea
- Brood: developing larvae, usually in social insects
- Cocoon: a pupa surrounded by a silk covering produced by the insect
- Colony: a group of social insects having a queen and workers
- Diapause: a hibernation like state in insects
- Drone: a reproductive male in social insects
- Flight Activity: in leafcutting bees, the amount of flying bees near the nests or shelter
- Gallon: 10,000 leafcutting bees
- Gregarious: living in groups but not forming a true social colony
- Hatch: emergence of adults insects
- Incubate: to maintain in an environment suitable for development or hatching. In leafcutting bees, cocoons with mature larvae are warmed after diapause to promote adult emergence.
- Larva: in insects, an immature form, not resembling the adult; pl. larvae
- Non-Apis bee: a bee not belonging to the genus Apis. A bee other than the Honeybee
- Oligolectic: foraging from a few species of flowers
- Parasitoid: an insect that feeds on or in another insect, and causes death in the host insect; one host is killed in the life of the parasitoid
- Pistil: the flower part that contains the ovules
- Pollen: the male gamete from a seed plant
- Pollen ball/Pollen mass: an unconsumed clump of pollen in a bee nest. Can be caused by lack of an egg laid, egg mortality, early larval mortality.
- Pollen bee: any bee other than the honeybee. See non-Apis bee.
- Pollenizer: a plant that is a source of pollen
- Pollination: the transfer of pollen from a stamen to a stigma
- Pollinator: an agent that causes pollen to be transfered from one flower to another
- Polylectic: foraging from many species of flowers
- Polyvoltine: having multiple generations in a year
- Predator: an animal (can be an insect) that feeds on other animals (also can be an insect) and consumes many prey in it's life
- Prepupa: a fully mature larva prior to becoming a pupa
- Pupa: a stage bewteen larva and adult; a resting stage, no feeding takes place; pl. pupae
- Queen: a female reproductive in social insects
- Social: insects that live in a organized groups and display a division of labor and overlapping generations
- Solitary: insects that do not display a divsion of labor and each individual is reproductive; non-social.
- Stamen: the flower part that produces the male gamete, consisting of a filament and an anther
- Stigma: part of the pistil that receives pollen, the female part of the flower Species
- Teneral: a newly emerged adult insect, with a soft integument
- Univoltine: having a single generation in a year
- Wasp: an insect of the order Hymenoptera, usually with a hard shiny body, usually with biting mouthparts, and a predatory or parasitic life style
- Worker: a non-reproductive female in social insects
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