Lastly, the lower one belongs to a female Osmia and the upper to a

OSMIE was a collaboration centred at Sheridan College.

She supplied me with a family of twenty-six, the largest which I have ever obtained from one Osmia.

Just one solitary bees activity is equivalent of up to 120 worker honeybees in the pollination it provides.

marked on the thorax is watched, day by day, from the commencement to

From the 6th of May, when she started operations, to the 25th of May, the date at which her laying ceased, one Osmia occupied seven Snail-shells in succession.

in its turn, with each of the two positions of the third Osmia.

In Ontario, two initiatives arose about the same time: ECOO and OSMIE (Ontario Society for Microcomputers in Education).

When she issues from the cocoons of the Blue Osmia (O. cyanea, KIRB.), she is sometimes hardly one-third the length which the other Osmia gives her.

She supplied me with a family of twenty-six, the largest which I have ever obtained from one Osmia.

I mark a plentiful number of my guests with a variety of dots on the thorax, which enables me to follow any one Osmia from the beginning to the end of her laying.

But, of this total number, I must use only those series which received an entire laying and were occupied by the same Osmia from the beginning to the end of the egg-season.