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Are Bees Territorial? Sometimes. If you are a male. And if you are big. I had not really thought in any systematic way about territoriality in bees until I was looking up information about the bee in this picture (Centris adani. Costa Rico, Tim McMahon collector). My literature poke revealed that colleague Gordon Frankie had published on this long ago in the 70s about territoriality in male C. adani. Off hand I can think of territorial males existing in at least some Anthidium, Xylocopa, Centris, Anthophora, Bombus. Makes me wonder if small bees might sometimes also be territorial but we just aren't observant enough to discover that fact. But, I would bet not, probably just a big bee thing. If you are territorial it has to be useful or why bother? Probably has to do with mating opportunities. Which leads to another weak observation: In general, highly territorial males are both praised and denigrated in human society. What is the intersection between those two thoughts? It feels fuzzy, ... but intriguing. If there is not a scientific paper there, there must be at least a novel. Perhaps a high end Romance Novel. 14:58, 14 February 2022 (UTC)14:58, 14 February 2022 (UTC){{{{{{0}}}}}}14:58, 14 February 2022 (UTC)14:58, 14 February 2022 (UTC) All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
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| Source | Centris adani, m, leg_2021-07-29-14.52.16 ZS PMax UDR |
| Author | USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA |
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