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Row crop fields provide mid‐summer forage for honey bees

Authors :
Mary R. Silliman
Roger Schürch
Sean Malone
Sally V. Taylor
Margaret J. Couvillon
Source :
Ecology and Evolution, Vol 12, Iss 6, Pp n/a-n/a (2022)
Publication Year :
2022
Publisher :
Wiley, 2022.

Abstract

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 (

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20457758
Volume :
12
Issue :
6
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Ecology and Evolution
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.330245fe617c491abe9c172f66db3d9d
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8979