Are Bee trees and Epigaea both hollow?
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Bee tree A bee tree is a tree in which a colony of honey bees makes its home. A colony of bees may live in a bee tree for many years. Most bee trees have a large inner hollow, often with an upper and lower entrance.
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Epigaea Epigaea is a genus comprising three species of flowering plants in the Ericaceae. The species are small creeping shrubs that are typically anywhere from 10 to tall at full growth, forming large patches. The leaves are evergreen, alternate and simple, ranging amongst the three species from 2 to long. The flowers are small, white or pink, with a five-lobed tubular corolla which is produced in mid-spring. The fruit is a dry capsule with numerous small seeds.
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Scopa (biology) Scopa (plural scopae; Latin for "broom") are any of a number of different modifications on the body of a "non-parasitic" bee that form a pollen-carrying apparatus. In most bees, the scopa is simply a particularly dense mass of elongated, often branched, hairs (or setae) on the hind leg. When present on the hind legs, the modified hairs are, at a minimum, on the tibia, but some bees also have modified hairs on the femur and/or trochanter. A few bees have, in addition to the leg hairs, many modified hairs on the ventral surface of the abdomen which are also used in pollen transport; there is one family of bees, Megachilidae, in which the modified leg hairs are absent, and the scopa is limited to the abdominal hairs (see photo). In the familiar honey bees and bumblebees, the scopa is replaced by the pollen basket (corbicula).
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Payena acuminata Payena acuminata is a tree in the Sapotaceae family. It grows up to 30 m tall with a trunk diameter of up to 75 cm . The bark is brown. Inflorescences bear up to 20 flowers. The fruits are ellipsoid, up to 4 cm long. The specific epithet "acuminata " is from the Latin meaning "tapering to a narrow point", referring to the leaf apex. The timber is used commercially and the tree is also a source of gutta-percha. Habitat is mixed dipterocarp forests from sea-level to 400 m altitude. "P. acuminata" is found widely in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Epeoloides Epeoloides is a genus of kleptoparasitic bees which lay their eggs in the nests of melittid bees of the genus "Macropis".
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Eucalyptus expressa Eucalypus expressa, the Wollemi stringybark, is a recently discovered Australian tree species. It is a tall forest tree from at least seven populations in sheltered gullies in the sandstone ranges north-west of Sydney. A ROTAP rarity rating of 2KC has been proposed for this species. Usually seen between 20 and tall, it is most closely related to "Eucalyptus eugenioides", and was previously known as "E." sp. aff. "eugenioides" (Bees Nest Ridge).
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Anthidium vigintipunctatum Anthidium vigintipunctatum is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae, the leaf-cutter, carder, or mason bees.
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Xylocopa nasalis The Oriental carpenter bee, Xylocopa nasalis, or Xylocopa (Biluna) nasalis, is a species of carpenter bee. It is widely distributed in Southeast Asian countries. It is a major pollinator within its ecosystem, and is often mistaken for a bumblebee. The species leads a solitary lifestyle with a highly female-biased colony in the nest.
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Beech Beech ("Fagus") is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia and North America. Recent classification systems of the genus recognize ten to thirteen species in two distinct subgenera, "Engleriana" and "Fagus". The "Engleriana" subgenus is found only in East Asia, and is notably distinct from the "Fagus" subgenus in that these beeches are low-branching trees, often made up of several major trunks with yellowish bark. Further differentiating characteristics include the whitish bloom on the underside of the leaves, the visible tertiary leaf veins, and a long, smooth cupule-peduncle. "Fagus japonica", "Fagus engleriana", and the species "F. okamotoi", proposed by the botanist Chung-Fu Shen in 1992, comprise this subgenus. The better known "Fagus" subgenus beeches are high-branching with tall, stout trunks and smooth silver-grey bark. This group includes "Fagus sylvatica", "Fagus grandifolia", "Fagus crenata", "Fagus lucida", "Fagus longipetiolata", and "Fagus hayatae". The classification of the European beech, "Fagus sylvatica" is complex, with a variety of different names proposed for different species and subspecies within this region (for example "Fagus taurica", "Fagus orientalis", and "Fagus moesica"). Research suggests that beeches in Eurasia differentiated fairly late in evolutionary history, during the Miocene. The populations in this area represent a range of often overlapping morphotypes, though genetic analysis does not clearly support separate species.
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Megachile sculpturalis Megachile sculpturalis, known as the giant resin bee, has a size between 1/2 and . It is much bigger than most other leafcutting bees. Native to Japan and China, it has been introduced to the Eastern United States and Ontario, Canada in recent times, and recorded as invasive in Europe in 2009. It is mainly black with brownish yellow hairs. They are known to use cavities belonging to carpenter bees to make their nests.
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Pacific burrowing wasp The Pacific burrowing wasp ("Philanthus multimaculatus") is a species of bee-hunting wasp — or a "beewolf" — of Western North America.
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Tabernaemontana ventricosa Tabernaemontana ventricosa (commonly known as forest toad-tree or small-fruited toad-tree) is a plant in the family Apocynaceae. It grows as a shrub or small tree up to 15 m tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 30 cm . Its fragrant flowers feature white lobes with a pale yellow corolla. The fruit is dark green, with two ellipsoids, up to 10 cm in diameter. Its habitat is forests from sea-level to 1850 m altitude. Local medicinal uses include the treatment of wounds, fever and hypertension. The plant is native to tropical central and southern Africa.
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Eristalis oestracea Eristalis oestracea is a European species of hoverfly. It is a furry bee mimic, superficially resembling "Merodon". The species are yellowish-black coloured.
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Dasypoda hirtipes Dasypoda hirtipes is a mining bee. The females have unmistakable large orange brown hairbrushes at the hindlegs. With these brushes the females collect pollen from yellow "Asteraceae". The females are nesting in, sometimes large, nest aggregations. Each female has her own burrow, and the sand from excavation is left as a wall around the entrance of the burrow.
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Emerald furrow bees in Australia The emerald furrow bee ("Seladonia hotoni") is native to southern Africa but has spread to Australia. It is metallic green and similar in size to the Australian native bee, "Lipotriches flavoviridis", 6 to 8 mm long. Because introduced bees may compete with native animals, disrupt plant pollination and transmit parasites and pathogens, scientists are concerned about the arrival of emerald furrow bees in Australia.
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Nannotrigona testaceicornis Nannotrigona testaceicornis is a eusocial stingless bee species of the order Hymenoptera and the genus "Nannotrigona". Its local common name is "abelhas iraí". This species has a large geographic distribution and occupies different biomes, including urban areas, around Neotropical America. The bees of this species nest in trees or artificial cavities because of this broad distribution. "N. testaceicornis" is important for agriculture because it will pollinate a vast number of plant species year round.
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Xylocopa bombylans Xylocopa bombylans, the peacock carpenter bee, is a species of carpenter bee found in Australia. It gets its common name by its habit of burrowing into wood.
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Banksiamyces Banksiamyces is a genus of fungi in the order Helotiales, with a tentative placement in the family Helotiaceae. The genus contains four species, which grow on the seed follicles of the dead infructescences or "cones" of various species of "Banksia", a genus in the plant family Proteaceae endemic to Australia. Fruit bodies of the fungus appear as small (typically less than 10 mm diameter), shallow dark cups on the follicles of the "Banksia" fruit. The edges of dry fruit bodies fold inwards, appearing like narrow slits. The first specimens of "Banksiamyces", known then as "Tympanis toomansis", were described in 1887. Specimens continued to be collected occasionally for almost 100 years before becoming examined more critically in the early 1980s, leading to the creation of a new genus to contain what was determined to be three distinct species, "B. katerinae", "B. macrocarpus", and "B. toomansis". A fourth species, "B. maccannii", was added in 1984.
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Eucalyptus polybractea The Blue mallee, Blue-leaved mallee or blue-leaved oil mallee, Eucalyptus polybractea (also formerly "E. fruticetorum") is a small multi-trunked sclerophyll tree that grows naturally in western New South Wales around West Wyalong and in Central Victoria Whipstick Scrub north of Bendigo and similar patches of mallee at Inglewood, Wedderburn, Wychitella, St. Arnaud, Rushworth areas in Victoria, Australia. The bark is smooth, and fibrous near the trunk base. Leaves are disjunct and linear to narrow-lanceolate. Juvenile leaves are glaucous, and adult leaves grey-green. Flowers are followed by woody capsules 3–6 mm long.
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Cajeput tree Cajeput tree is a common name used for certain classification of tree that has a white spongy bark that is flexible and can easily flake off the trunk. The Cajeput tree is of the genus "Melaleuca", native to Australia and is commonly known in North America as the Tea Tree. The name "Cajeput tree" is primarily used for the species "M. cajuputi", "M. leucadendra", "M. linariifolia", "M. viridiflora" and "M. quinquenervia". Other names for these trees are the paperbark tree, punk tree, or the white bottle brush tree. Similar subtropical trees from the eucalyptus family are evergreens with pointed leaves and white, red or green flowers. Aborigines of Australia often used the cajeput tree bark for shields, canoes, roofing material and timber.
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Elaeocarpus reticulatus Elaeocarpus reticulatus, the blueberry ash, is a large shrub or tree which can grow to a height of 15m. In New South Wales (NSW) rainforests it can attain a height of 30 metres. Its most conspicuous features are white or pink cup-shaped flowers with fringed edges and round blue fruits. Strictly botanically, the fruits are not true berries but drupes. Blueberry ash also has leaves which turn bright red as they get older.
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Philanthus ventilabris Philanthus ventilabris is a species of bee-hunting wasp (or "beewolf").