An Assessment of Non-Apis Bees as Fruit and Vegetable Crop Pollinators in Southwest Virginia
Declines in pollinators around the globe, notably the loss of honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) to Colony Collapse Disorder, coupled with a dearth of quantitative data on non-Apis bee pollinators, led to this dissertation research, which documents the role of non-Apis bees in crop pollination in southw...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26313 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-02252011-134549/ |