Class: Insecta
Order:
Hymenoptera Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily:
Apoidea Familia: Megachilidae
Gender: Rhodanthidium
Species: Rhodanthidium sticticum
Today opens a new blog entry this feature red bee. Is photographed in natural surroundings around Ardales, Málaga. Although it was the first time I saw the Hymenoptera, I must say that dozens had to hover and pollinating flowers. This family of bees has some white hairs under the abdomen and chest are called scopae whose function is to collect pollen. These bees are the most efficient in the world at the time of pollination, and ironically this is due to frequent visits by inefficient plants collect pollen.
The nests R. sticticum are very simple. Usually lay an egg and this is due to nest in empty snail shells, whose space is substantially reduced. The interior is provisioned with a kind of paste of pollen and nectar. Then they covered it with stones, fragments of snail shells and other particles held together by a resin, making the set a smooth waxy exterior. 
