Row crop fields provide mid‐summer forage for honey bees

Autor: Mary R. Silliman, Roger Schürch, Sean Malone, Sally V. Taylor, Margaret J. Couvillon
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Ecology and Evolution, Vol 12, Iss 6, Pp n/a-n/a (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2045-7758
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.8979
Popis: Abstract Honey bees provide invaluable economic and ecological services while simultaneously facing stressors that may compromise their health. For example, agricultural landscapes, such as a row crop system, are necessary for our food production, but they may cause poor nutrition in bees from a lack of available nectar and pollen. Here, we investigated the foraging dynamics of honey bees in a row crop environment. We decoded, mapped, and analyzed 3459 waggle dances, which communicate the location of where bees collected food, for two full foraging seasons (April–October, 2018–2019). We found that bees recruited nestmates mostly locally (
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