(Latin: Colletes daviesanus) Davies’s Colletes These are solitary bees (p. 180) which do not form true colonies although several may live close together. Like other bees they have a sting, but are not very aggressive. In the wild they live in chalk or clay, but they may also live in mortar if it is not too hard. These bees dig cylindrical, horizontal tunnels in the mortar, but do not enter cavity walls. They nearly always choose a sunny aspect, a…
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…lidesfelis Ctenocephalides canis Cu/ex pipiens Culicidae Culiseta annulata Davies’s Colletes Death-watch beetle Debris bug Delichon urbina Dendrobium pertinax Dendrocopus major Dermanyssus gallinae Dermatophagoides Dermestes frischi! Dermestes haemorrhoidalis Dermestes lardarius Dermestidae Dermestids larvae Devil’s coach-horse Dinoderus minutus. Diplopoda Dog flea Dog louse Dried currant moth Dronefly larva Drosophila funebris Drugstore beetle Dr…
Animals in masonry and insulation
…eggs. There are, however, some which actually dig their way into mortar. A Davies’s colletes returns home to its nest with pollen Woodpeckers Now and again woodpeckers find out that there are fat, juicy bee larvae in the wall. Once they have learned the trick they will arrive and hack great craters in the mortar in order to get at the grubs. If one cannot tolerate this form of biological control it will be necessary to scrape out the larvae and ma…
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…ularius Cimex pipistrelli Clover mite Coccinella septempunctata Coleoptera Colletes davies anus Common flower bug Common house spider Common scabies Continued itching Corn flies Corn lice Craetaerina pallida Cross spider Ctenocephalides canis Ctenocephalides felis Culicidae Culicoides Culiseta annalata Cyanea capillata Cyanea larmarcki Danish pest control laboratory Danmarks Biavlerforening Deer fly Demodex brevis Demodex canis Demodex cati Demode…
Plasterer bee
Latin: Colletes Daviesanus The Plasterer bee is a solitary bee. Meaning that unlike the honeybee, it does not form larger communities with other plasterer bees. The do occur in colonies that share a larger area. The female plasterer bee builds a nest for itself and its larvae, but several females do not live together, and the males are unwelcoming in these nests. It can be difficult for an ordinary person to distinguish between a plasterer bee an…
Solitary bees
…can sting, but they are not very aggressive, and since they do not have to defend a shared nest, there are no cases of mass attacks. Because solitary bees are often small, the stings are usually mild. The Colletes davieseanus is a solitary bee that often lives in colonies. It can dig passageways to the nests in the loose mortar of houses. It rarely stings, but it can destroy the mortar….
Solitary bees
…olitary bees in northern Europe. Although they may live gregariously, e.g. Colletes daviesanus (see p. 157), they are known as solitary bees because each individual female makes her own nest, lays and tends her eggs and collects her own food. According to the species, solitary bees may construct their nests in the ground, in plant stems, in timber, or in buildings where crevices in masonry and woodwork offer good shelter. The nests may be built of…