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Tb191: Conservation And Management Of Native Bees In Cranberry, Jennifer L. Loose, Francis A. Drummond, Constance Stubbs, Stephen Woods
Tb191: Conservation And Management Of Native Bees In Cranberry, Jennifer L. Loose, Francis A. Drummond, Constance Stubbs, Stephen Woods
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Threats to agriculturally important pollinators have serious implications for human beings. A loss of bees translates to less successful crop pollination, thus reduced yield and poorer quality fruits. Native bees have the potential to serve as commercial pollinators. A diverse pollinator complex comprised of both honey bees and native bees should result in stable pollination levels and should be resistant to threats such as disease, fluctuating honey and crop prices, and honey bee transportation costs. Adding the goal of native bee conservation to land management increases the ecological integrity of an ecosystem by conserving a unique biological interaction that is …
Tb148: Alternative Forage Plants For Native (Wild) Bees Associated With Lowbush Blueberry, Vaccinium Spp., In Maine, C. S. Stubbs, H. A. Jacobson, E. A. Osgood, F. A. Drummond
Tb148: Alternative Forage Plants For Native (Wild) Bees Associated With Lowbush Blueberry, Vaccinium Spp., In Maine, C. S. Stubbs, H. A. Jacobson, E. A. Osgood, F. A. Drummond
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To determine potentially suitable alternative food sources for important native bee pollinators of blueberry, the primary objectives of the present research were (1) to compile the published North American nectar, pollen, and flower records; (2) to analyze the pollen loads of native bees associated with Vaccinium spp. in Maine; and (3) to survey distribution and abundance patterns of native bee populations in Maine blueberry fields.