Honey bee and native solitary bee foraging behavior in a crop with dimorphic parental lines.

Insect pollination is issential for hybrid seed production systems, among which, introduced and native bees are the primary pollinating agents transferring pollen from male fertile (MF) to male sterile (MS) lines. On a highly dimorphic sunflower (Helianthus annuus) crop, we assessed the foraging beh...

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Main Authors: María Cecilia Estravis Barcala, Florencia Palottini, Walter Marcelo Farina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223865