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 | | The females that are produced in the fall eat only nectar before hibernating; but when they emerge in the spring they eat pollen, which stimulates ovarian development, and they undertake nesting. |
 | | One halactid, the alkali bee, Nomia melandri, nests in communities of thousands of individuals with almost 2,700 nests per square meter (250 per square foot). |
 | | Eighty of these bees are equal to a small colony of honeybees in pollinating alfalfa blooms, and so farmers often establish alkali bees near alfalfa fields. |
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