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A National Program of Research for Bees and Other Pollinating Insects and Insects Affecting Man
Author | : Joint Task Force of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and the State Universities and Land Grant Colleges |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 78 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Bees |
ISBN | : |
Status of Pollinators in North America
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2007-05-13 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0309102898 |
Pollinators-insects, birds, bats, and other animals that carry pollen from the male to the female parts of flowers for plant reproduction-are an essential part of natural and agricultural ecosystems throughout North America. For example, most fruit, vegetable, and seed crops and some crops that provide fiber, drugs, and fuel depend on animals for pollination. This report provides evidence for the decline of some pollinator species in North America, including America's most important managed pollinator, the honey bee, as well as some butterflies, bats, and hummingbirds. For most managed and wild pollinator species, however, population trends have not been assessed because populations have not been monitored over time. In addition, for wild species with demonstrated declines, it is often difficult to determine the causes or consequences of their decline. This report outlines priorities for research and monitoring that are needed to improve information on the status of pollinators and establishes a framework for conservation and restoration of pollinator species and communities.
Bees and Other Pollinating Insects
Author | : Southern Region Agricultural Experiment Stations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Bees |
ISBN | : |
Improving the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators
Author | : Christina L. Evans |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Bee culture |
ISBN | : 9781634843850 |
Wherever flowering plants flourish, pollinating bees, birds, butterflies, bats, and other animals are hard at work, providing vital but often unnoticed services. But many pollinators are in serious decline in the United States and worldwide. Preventing continued losses of our country's pollinators requires immediate national attention, as pollinators play a critical role in maintaining diverse ecosystems and in supporting agricultural production. Some three-fourths of all native plants in the world require pollination by an animal, most often an insect, and most often a native bee. Pollinators, most often honey bees, are also responsible for one in every three bites of food we take, and increase our nation's crop values each year by more than 15 billion dollars. Unabated, these losses of our pollinators threaten agricultural production, the maintenance of natural plant communities, and the important services provided by those ecosystems, such as carbon cycling, flood and erosion control, and recreation. This book discusses national strategies and research action plans to improve the health of honey bees and other pollinators.
Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 1
Author | : Keith S. Delaplane |
Publisher | : CABI |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2021-07-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1786393492 |
Since the second half of the 20th Century, our agricultural bee pollinators have faced mounting threats from ecological disturbance and pan-global movement of pathogens and parasites. At the same time, the area of pollinator-dependent crops is increasing globally with no end in sight. Never before has so much been asked of our finite pool of bee pollinators. This book not only explores the evolutionary and ecologic bases of these dynamics, it translates this knowledge into practical research-based guidance for using bees to pollinate crops. It emphasizes conserving wild bee populations as well as culturing honey bees, bumble bees, and managed solitary bees. To cover such a range of biology, theory, and practice from the perspectives of both the pollinator and the crop, the book is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on bees, their biology, coevolution with plants, foraging ecology and management, and gives practical ways to increase bee abundance and pollinating performance on the farm. Volume 2 (also available from CABI) focuses on crops, with chapters addressing crop-specific requirements and bee pollination management recommendations. Both volumes will be essential reading for farmers, horticulturists and gardeners, researchers and professionals working in insect ecology and conservation, and students of entomology and crop protection.
Insect Pollination of Cultivated Crop Plants
Author | : Samuel Emmett McGregor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Abeille |
ISBN | : |
Bee Basics
Author | : Stephen Buchmann |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2015-09-16 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780160929854 |
Native bees are a hidden treasure. From alpine meadows in the national forests of the Rocky Mountains to the Sonoran Desert in the Coronado National Forest in Arizona and from the boreal forests of the Tongass National Forest in Alaska to the Ocala National Forest in Florida, bees can be found anywhere in North America, where flowers bloom. From forests to farms, from cities to wildlands, there are 4,000 native bee species in the United States, from the tiny Perdita minima to large carpenter bees. This illustrated and colorful pamphlet provides valued information about native bees --over 4,000 in population --varying in a wide array of sizes, shapes, and colors. They are also different in their life styles, the places they frequent, the nests they build, the flowers they visit, and their season of activity. Yet, they all provide an invaluable ecosystem service - pollination -to 80 percent of flowering plants. Blueberry bees, bumble bees, yellow jacket bees, carpenter bees, and more are explored, including the differences in their gender, nests, and geographical regions that they visit.
Pollination Biology
Author | : Dharam P. Abrol |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 2011-10-05 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9400719426 |
This book has a wider approach not strictly focused on crop production compared to other books that are strictly oriented towards bees, but has a generalist approach to pollination biology. It also highlights relationships between introduced and wild pollinators and consequences of such introductions on communities of wild pollinating insects. The chapters on biochemical basis of plant-pollination interaction, pollination energetics, climate change and pollinators and pollinators as bioindicators of ecosystem functioning provide a base for future insights into pollination biology. The role of honeybees and wild bees on crop pollination, value of bee pollination, planned honeybee pollination, non-bee pollinators, safety of pollinators, pollination in cages, pollination for hybrid seed production, the problem of diseases, genetically modified plants and bees, the role of bees in improving food security and livelihoods, capacity building and awareness for pollinators are also discussed.