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Overview of Bee Pollination and Its Economic Value for Crop Production [PDF]

Insects, 2021
Pollination plays a significant role in the agriculture sector and serves as a basic pillar for crop production. Plants depend on vectors to move pollen, which can include water, wind, and animal pollinators like bats, moths, hoverflies, birds, bees ...
Shaden A. M. Khalifa, Esraa H. Elshafiey, Aya A. Shetaia, Aida A. Abd El-Wahed, Ahmed F. Algethami, Syed G. Musharraf, Mohamed F. AlAjmi, Chao Zhao, Saad H. D. Masry, Mohamed M. Abdel-Daim, Mohammed F. Halabi, Guoyin Kai, Yahya Al Naggar, Mokhtar Bishr, Mohamed A. M. Diab, Hesham R. El-Seedi   +15 more
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Area Wide Monitoring of Plant and Honey Bee (<i>Apis mellifera</i>) Viruses in Blueberry (<i>Vaccinium corymbosum</i>) Agroecosystems Facilitated by Honey Bee Pollination. [PDF]

Viruses, 2023
Healthy agroecosystems are dependent on a complex web of factors and inter-species interactions. Flowers are hubs for pathogen transmission, including the horizontal or vertical transmission of plant-viruses and the horizontal transmission of bee-viruses.
Lee E, Vansia R, Phelan J, Lofano A, Smith A, Wang A, Bilodeau GJ, Pernal SF, Guarna MM, Rott M, Griffiths JS.   +10 more
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Buzz-Pollinated Crops: A Global Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Supplemental Bee Pollination in Tomato. [PDF]

J Econ Entomol, 2021
Buzz-pollinated plants require visitation from vibration producing bee species to elicit full pollen release. Several important food crops are buzz-pollinated including tomato, eggplant, kiwi, and blueberry. Although more than half of all bee species can
Cooley H, Vallejo-Marín M.
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Bee pollination outperforms pesticides for oilseed crop production and profitability. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2019
Nature-based agriculture that reduces dependency on chemical inputs requires using ecological principles for sustainable agro-ecosystems, aiming to balance ecology, economics and social justice.
Catarino R, Bretagnolle V, Perrot T, Vialloux F, Gaba S.   +4 more
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Bee pollination increases yield quantity and quality of cash crops in Burkina Faso, West Africa. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2017
Mutualistic biotic interactions as among flowering plants and their animal pollinators are a key component of biodiversity. Pollination, especially by insects, is a key element in ecosystem functioning, and hence constitutes an ecosystem service of ...
Stein K, Coulibaly D, Stenchly K, Goetze D, Porembski S, Lindner A, Konaté S, Linsenmair EK.   +7 more
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Honey Bee Pollination of Camellia oleifera and Mitigation of Toxic Crop Nectar [PDF]

Insects
Tea oil tree (Camellia oleifera), a woody oil crop native to Southern China, relies on insect pollination for fruit and seed production. However, its nectar is toxic to honey bees (Apis spp.) due to their inability to digest the oligosaccharide present ...
Feng Liu, Pingli Dai, Weiliang Zhou, Jinghua Hu, Fang Yuan, Xijian Xu, Wujun Jiang, Qun Luo, Huijun Huang, Ge Zhang, Wuguang Ye   +10 more
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Flight of the bumble bee: Buzzes predict pollination services. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Multiple interacting factors drive recent declines in wild and managed bees, threatening their pollination services. Widespread and intensive monitoring could lead to more effective management of wild and managed bees.
Nicole E Miller-Struttmann, David Heise, Johannes Schul, Jennifer C Geib, Candace Galen   +4 more
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Combined stress from parasites, pesticides and lack of flowers drives bee declines [PDF]

Science, 2015
Bees are subject to numerous pressures in the modern world. The abundance and diversity of flowers has declined, bees are chronically exposed to cocktails of agrochemicals, and they are simultaneously exposed to novel parasites accidentally spread by ...
Botias Talamantes, Cristina, Goulson, Dave, Nicholls, Beth, Rotheray, Ellen   +3 more
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Importance of bee pollination for cotton production in conventional and organic farms in Brazil

Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2014
This study aimed to evaluate the importance of wild bee and feral honeybee visits for cotton production on conventional and organic farms. Experiments were conducted in Brazil, on a conventional cotton farm in Mato Grosso state in the Amazon biome and on
Viviane C. Pires, Fernando A. Silveira, Edison R. Sujii, Karoline R. S. Torezani, Wallyson A. Rodrigues, Fábio A. Albuquerque, Sandra M. M. Rodrigues, Antonieta N. Salomão, Carmen Sílvia Soares Pires   +8 more
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Pollination efficiency by bee guilds (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) to annatto flowers, Bixa orellana L.1753 (Bixaceae) [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Insect’s pollination is essential in the maintaining of species abundance and diversity in the biomes. Bees are the most common pollinators of flowering plants, being their services very important in the conservation of biotope and biodiversity. The aims
K. S. Arteman, M. A. Uchoa, V. V. Alves-Junior, E. A. B. Almeida, M. R. Maestre   +4 more
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