2019
DOI: 10.3897/jhr.74.39191
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Flower use by late nineteenth-century orchid bees (Eufriesea surinamensis, Hymenoptera, Apidae) nesting in the Catedral Basílica Santa María la Antigua de Panamá

Abstract: A recent restoration of the Basilica Cathedral in Casco Viejo, Panamá, revealed that prior to 1871-1876 female orchid bees (Eufriesea surinamensis) built large nesting aggregations high above the main altar, based on physical evidence dating to a nineteenth-century restoration. Bees constructed cells in approximately 120 clusters in six different aggregations on the reredos ("altarpiece"). Palynological analyses of cell contents showed that bees visited 48 species of plants, representing 43 genera and 23 famil… Show more

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