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Defining Bee Pollinator Community Composition In Tennessee Soybean, Andrew L. Lawson
Defining Bee Pollinator Community Composition In Tennessee Soybean, Andrew L. Lawson
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Two planting dates of various soybean varieties were planted in Jackson and Knoxville, TN during 2018 and 2019 with the overall intent of surveying the diversity bee (Hymenoptera) genera in these agroecosystems and also to assess the potential for using late maturing soybean as a food resource for bees during the dearth of floral resources that often occurs during the fall. We also investigated how manipulating planting dates and soybean variety selection affected the occurrence of insect pests that occurred in the soybean.
Both active (netting) and passive (bee bowls and blue-vane traps) sampling were used to collect the bees, …