Summer bees for spring crops? Potential Problems with Megachile rotundata (Fab.) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) as a pollinator of Lowbush Blueberry (Ericaceae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 276-287

  Sheffield, Cory S ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cold hardiness; Low temperature survival; Megachile rotundata; Phenology; Pollination; Spring flowering crops; Summer bee

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ALFALFA; BEE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CROP; LEAFMINER; MORTALITY; PEST CONTROL; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PUPA; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

APOIDEA; ERICACEAE; HYMENOPTERA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MEGACHILE ROTUNDATA; MEGACHILIDAE; VACCINIUM; VACCINIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; VACCINIUM MYRTILLOIDES;

EID: 70350070012     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2317/JKES-710.23.1     Document Type: Article

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