Hornfaced bee

Hornfaced bee

Taxobox | name = Hornfaced bee



regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hymenoptera
familia = Megachilidae
genus = "Osmia"
species = "O. cornifrons"
binomial = "Osmia cornifrons"
binomial_authority = (Radoszkowski, 1887)

The hornfaced bee ("Osmia cornifrons") has been used commercially for several decades in Japan to pollinate apples, as it is now in the US. A single hornfaced bee can visit 15 flowers in a minute. This solitary bee nests in reeds, tubes and holes in wood.


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