{"id":4150,"date":"2011-12-28T17:07:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2011-12-28T17:12:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T16:12:32","slug":"american-osmia-species-with-modified-facial-bristles-for-pollen-uptake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/2011\/12\/28\/american-osmia-species-with-modified-facial-bristles-for-pollen-uptake\/","title":{"rendered":"American Osmia species with modified facial bristles for pollen uptake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">In a recent paper, Rightmyer et al. (2011) describe two new <em>Osmia<\/em> species from the southeastern United States belonging to the subgenera <em>Melanosmia<\/em> and <em>Diceratosmia<\/em>, respectively, which both possess a specialized facial pilosity composed of short and erect bristles. These bristles are used to collect pollen from nototribic flowers. At least six other <em>Osmia<\/em> species from North America have modified facial hairs, which probably have the same function (Rightmyer et al., 2011). In the Palearctic osmiine bees, a specialized facial pilosity used to collect pollen from the nototribic flowers of Lamiaceae and Antirrhineae is known to date from twelve species of <em>Osmia<\/em> (<em>Helicosmia<\/em>), four species of <em>Osmia<\/em> (<em>Erythrosmia<\/em>), three species of <em>Hoplitis<\/em> (<em>Micreriades<\/em>) and one species of <em>Hoplitis<\/em> (<em>Hoplitis<\/em>). Thus, morphological specializations for exploiting nototribic flowers have independently evolved many times in the osmiine bees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent paper, Rightmyer et al. (2011) describe two new Osmia species from the southeastern United States belonging to the subgenera Melanosmia and Diceratosmia, respectively, which both possess a specialized facial pilosity composed of short and erect bristles. These bristles are used to collect pollen from nototribic flowers. At least six other Osmia species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1092,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1735],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1092"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/osmiini\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}