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Research To Understand Who Are the Important Blueberry Pollinators In North Carolina
We are sharing two links with permission that focus on bee behavior in North Carolina. The focus in on pollination and blueberries. These two articles are non-technical reads derived from research just released and is specific to North Carolina. Bookmark or subscribe here or at the NC State University website for follow-up articles on this important subject to all growers of blueberries in North Carolina.
Does bee diversity change how pollinators behave in blueberries?
Originally Posted: 9 December 2013
Original Link Here
Author: Hanna Burrack
“Bees are essential for blueberry pollination in addition to many other crops, and since 2009, we have conducted research to understand who the important pollinators are in North Carolina blueberries. This was the focus of recent masters student Shelley Roger’s thesis, which addressed three key questions: What bees are present in NC blueberries? How do those bee species perform as pollinators? And how do species interactions influence pollinator performance?”
Which bees are the “best” blueberry pollinators
Originally Posted: 17 December 2013
Original Link Here
Author: Hanna Burrack
“A diverse group of bees pollinate blueberries in North Carolina. During the past three years, one the focuses of in our lab has been to understand the relative importance of the different bees for blueberry pollination. When we initially set out to assess pollinators in blueberries, our goals were both to determine which species were present and how important each species was for fruit production. This second goal, identifying which bees are the “best” blueberry pollinators, is more complicated than it might seem.”
This information is shared with permission from the NC State University Cooperative Extension Entomology Department
Hanna J. Burrack is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
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