Reproduction and Accompanying Fauna of Red Mason Bee Osmia rufa L. (syn. Osmia bicornis L.) in Areas with Different Levels of Urbanization

Barbara Zajdel; Mikołaj Borański; Kornelia Kucharska; Dariusz Teper

doi:10.2478/jas-2021-0009

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Reproduction and Accompanying Fauna of Red Mason Bee Osmia rufa L. (syn. Osmia bicornis L.) in Areas with Different Levels of Urbanization

Journal of Apicultural Science

Volume 65 (2021): Issue 1 (June 2021)

By: Barbara Zajdel, Mikołaj Borański, Kornelia Kucharska and Dariusz Teper

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Dispersion of sites in the village (a), suburbs and center of Warsaw area (b).

Sample satellite images of habitats with different levels of urbanization - A - city, B - suburbs, C - village.

Percentage of habitat coverage in three levels of urbanization.

Table 1

Mean of cocoons in habitats and areas with different urbanization levels

Urbanization level	Habitat	Emergence rate (Eg)	Mean per tube			Population growth rate (Pg)	% of occupied tubes
			min-max	Total for site	Total for area
			min-max	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD
H	C1	96.33	5.4 – 8.3	6.9^* ± 3.2 ^ab	7.3 ± 3.6 ^A**	5.65	99.85
H	C2	97.00	8.2 – 9.2	8.6 ± 3.4 ^ac	7.3 ± 3.6 ^A**	5.65	99.85
C3	97.33	5.7 – 8.6	7.7 ± 4.2 ^abc
C4	97.90	5.4 – 7.6	6.0 ± 3,5 ^a
M	S1	97.83	5.3 – 5.7	5.2 ± 3.1 ^c	6.2 ± 3.5 ^A	5.18	97.73
M	S2	98.25	6.6 – 74	7.0 ± 3.8 ^abc	6.2 ± 3.5 ^A	5.18	97.73
S3	98.83	6.0 – 7.1	6.7 ± 3.5 ^abc
L	V1	98.08	6.0 – 9.0	7.0 ± 3.1 ^abc	7.4 ± 3.3 ^A	5.86	93.67
L	V2	98.75	6.6 – 8.6	7.7 ± 3.7 ^ab	7.4 ± 3.3 ^A	5.86	93.67
V3	98.67	6.3 – 9.0	7.5 ± 3.1 ^ab

Different letters indicate significant differences between of groups (one way ANOVA, P<0.05):

a* (small letters) comparison of means in habitats,

A** (CAPITALS) comparison of means in areas.

Table 2

Mortality (dead larvae and pupae) in habitats with different urbanization levels

Urbanization level	Habitat	Mean per tube
Urbanization level	Habitat	min-max	Total for site mean ± SD	Total for area ± SD
H	C1	1.07 – 1.87	1.59 ± 1.6 ^c*	1.31 ± 1.60 ^A**
H	C2	0.84 – 1.42	1.31 ± 1.2 ^abc	1.31 ± 1.60 ^A**
C3	1.42 – 1.84	1.55 ± 1.6 ^bc
C4	0.46 – 1.39	0.89 ± 1.6 ^abc
M	S1	0.29 – 0.78	0.60 ± 1.2 ^a	1.04 ± 1.60 ^A
M	S2	1.80 – 2.04	1.60 ± 1.8 ^c	1.04 ± 1.60 ^A
S3	0.68 – 1.24	1.00 ± 1.5 ^abc
L	V1	0.71 – 1.06	1.11± 1.3 ^abc	0.85 ± 1.20 ^A
L	V2	0.60 – 0.95	0.70 ± 1.1 ^a	0.85 ± 1.20 ^A
V3	0.60 – 1.09	0.75 ± 1.0 ^ab

Different letters indicate significant differences between of groups (one way ANOVA, P<0.05):

a* (small letters) comparison of means in habitats,

A** (CAPITALS) comparison of means in areas.

Table 3

Damage caused by the 3 most significant parasitic species (C. indagator, M. obscurus, Ch. osmiae) in habitats with different urbanization levels

Urbanization level	Habitat	Cells occupied by parasites per tube			Total for area
		min-max	Total for site		Total for area
		min-max	Me	Mean ± SD	Me	Mean ± SD
H	C1	0.14 – 1.19	0.18 ^a*	0.17 ± 0.02	0.25 ^A**	0.56 ± 0.61
H	C2	1.26 – 1.94	1.39 ^ab	1.53 ± 036	0.25 ^A**	0.56 ± 0.61
C3	0.08 – 0.56	0.28 ^ab	0.31 ± 0.24
C4	0.16 – 0.37	0.23 ^ab	0.25 ± 0.1
M	S1	2.51 – 3.03	2.93 ^b	2.8 ± 2.7	1.10 ^B	1.58 ± 1.09
M	S2	0.47 – 1.10	0.69 ^ab	0.75 ± 0.31	1.10 ^B	1.58 ± 1.09
S3	0.25 – 2.21	1.03 ^ab	1.16 ± 0.99
L	V1	0.32 – 0.45	0.38 ^ab	0.38 ± 0.06	0.45 ^AB	0.64 ± 0.44
L	V2	0.27 – 1.44	0.92 ^ab	0.87 ± 0.59	0.45 ^AB	0.64 ± 0.44
V3	0.28 – 1.19	0.51 ^ab	0.66 ± 0.48

* Different letters indicate significant differences between groups (Kruskal-Wallis test, P<0.05):

a* (small letters) comparison of mean of ranks in habitats

A** (CAPITALS) comparison of medians in areas.

Table 4

Species, families and orders of A/C-fauna of red mason bees (fauna classification according to Krunić et al., 2005)

Species		City			Suburbs			Village
Species		2014	2015	2016	2014	2015	2016	2014	2015	2016
Cleptoparasites	Cacoxenus indagator Loew, 1858	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Cleptoparasites	Chaetodactylus osmiae (Dufour, 1839)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Chrysopidae sp.								+	+
Parasitoids	Monodontomerus obscurus Westwood, 1833	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Melittobia acasta^* (Walker, 1839)			+
Predators	Trichodes apiarius (Linnaeus, 1758)					+		+	+	+
Predators	Raphidioptera sp.						+
Birds (Picidae sp.)		+	+
Nest destroyers	Tribolium castaneum (Herbst, 1797)							+	+	+
	Ptinus fur (Linnaeus, 1758)						+
	Reduvius personatus (Linnaeus, 1758)									+
	Rhyparochromus vulgaris (Schilling, 1829)			+			+
Dermestes lardarius Linnaeus, 1758	+	+			+		+
Megatoma undata (Linnaeus, 1758)		+			+	+	+	+	+
Plodia interpunctella (Hübner, 1813)	+				+			+	+
Auplopus carbonarius (Scopoli,1763)	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	+
Cleptobionts	Camponotus fallax (Nylander,1846)	+						+
Accidental nest residents	Pyrrhocoris apterus (Linnaeus, 1758)		+	+		+		+
	Oulema melanopus (Linnaeus, 1758)+						+
	Megachile rotundata (Linnaeus, 1758)									+
	Coelioxys echinata^* (Foerster, 1853)									+
	Ancistrocerus parietum (Linnaeus, 1758)									+
Forficula auricularia (Linnaeus, 1758)	+	+				+		+
Vespula vulgaris (Linnaeus 1758)			+					+
Psocoptera sp.	+		+	+		+	+		+
Lepidoptera sp.					+		+
No. of species per year		9	9	10	5	10	10	12	11	14
Total no. of species in the area		15			16			20

* Cleptoparasite Megachile rotundata, accompanying O.rufa

Individual based rarefaction curves for A/C fauna for three levels of urbanization (H, M and L).

Changes in Shannon’s index of A/C-fauna depending on the percentage of plant-covered area in the habitat.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jas-2021-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2299-4831 | Journal ISSN: 1643-4439 (formerly 2299-4831)

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Language: English

Page range: 123 - 137

Submitted on: May 24, 2020

Accepted on: Mar 24, 2021

Published on: Jun 24, 2021

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