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References

• Attenborough, D. 1995. The Private Life of Plants: A Natural History of Plant Behavior. London: BBC Books. 320 p.
• Cane, J. H., & Payne J. A.   (1988).  Foraging ecology of the bee Habropoda laboriosa (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae), an oligolege of blueberries (Ericaceae: Vaccinium) in the southeastern United States.  Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 81, 419 - 427.
• Droege, S., Rightmyer M. G., Sheffield C. S., & Brady S. G.   (2010).  New synonymies in the bee genus Nomada from North America (Hymenoptera: Apidae).  Zootaxa. 2661, 1-32.
• Eltz, T.; Whitten, W.M.; Roubik, D.W.; Linsenmair, K.E. Fragrance collection, storage, and accumulation by individual male orchid bees. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 25(1): 157-176.
• Engel, C. 2002. Wild health: how animals keep themselves well and what we can learn from them. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 276 p.
• Forsyth, A. 1992. Exploring the World of Insects: The Equinox Guide to Insect Behaviour. Camden House.
• Gauld, I., B. Bolton. 1988. The Hymenoptera. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
• Hilty, J. Editor. 2013. Insect Visitors of Illinois Wildflowers.   World Wide Web electronic publication. illinoiswildflowers.info, version (05/2013)  
  See:   Abbreviations for Insect Activities,   Abbreviations for Scientific Observers,   References for behavioral observations
• Ito, Y. 1993. Behavior and Social Evolution of Wasps. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
• Lichtenberg, E. M., Hrncir M., & Nieh J. C.   (2009).  A scientific note: Foragers deposit attractive scent marks in a stingless bee that does not communicate food location.  Apidologie. 40(1), 1-2.
• Lichtenberg, E. M., Hrncir M., Turatti I. C., & Nieh J. C.   (2011).  Olfactory eavesdropping between two competing stingless bee species..  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 65(4), 763-774.
• Lichtenberg, E. M., Imperatriz-Fonseca V. L., & Nieh J. C.   (2010).  Behavioral suites mediate group-level foraging dynamics in communities of tropical stingless bees..  Insectes Sociaux. 57(1), 105-113.
• Michener, C. 2000. The Bees of the World. Baltimore, Maryland, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Michener, Charles D. 2000. The Bees of the World. xiv + 913
• Michener, Charles D. 2007. The Bees of the World, Second Edition. xvi + 953
• P. G. Howes, The Giant Cactus Forest and Its World: A Brief Biology of the Giant Cactus Forest of Our American Southwest (Duell, Sloan, and Pearce, New York; Little, Brown, Boston; 1954), from pp. 222-239, from p. 227.
• Ramel, G. 2005. "Gordons Solitary Bee Page" (On-line). Accessed July 05, 2005 at http://www.earthlife.net/insects/solbees.html.
• Roberts DR; Alecrim WD; Heller JM; Ehrhardt SR; Lima JB. 1982. Male Eufriesia purpurata, a DDT-collecting euglossine bee in Brazil. Nature Chemical Biology. 297: 62 - 63.
• Vetter W; Roberts D. 2007. Revisiting the organohalogens associated with 1979-samples of Brazilian bees (Eufriesea purpurata). Science of The Total Environment. 377(2-3): 371-377.
• Y. Hong. 1983. Fossil insects in diatomaceous materials of Shanwang. Bulletin Tianjin Institute 8:1-15
• von Frisch, C. 1950. Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses, and Language. Ithica, New York: Cornell University Press.