Crop flower visitation by honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees: Behavioural differences and diversity responses to landscape

By B. Woodcock, M. Edwards, J. Redhead, W. Meek, P. Nuttall, S. Falk, M. Nowakowski, Richard F. Pywell. 2013

157 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Richard J. Gill
2. J. Ollerton
3. John M. Holland
4. Dave Goulson
5. S. Potts
6. T. Breeze
7. T. Wood
8. J. Osborne

In Insect Science

1. Richard J. Gill
2. J. Ollerton
3. S. Potts
4. Dave Goulson
5. T. Breeze
6. John M. Holland
7. A. Campbell
8. N. Hanley

In Plant Science

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3. T. Wood
4. S. Potts
5. Richard J. Gill
6. Dave Goulson
7. J. Osborne
8. G. Stone

Citations in the corpus

• Species richness of wild bees, but not the use of managed honeybees, increases fruit set of a pollinator-dependent crop (2015, background): “For many crops, wild bees are also better pollinators compared to honeybees (Garibaldi et al. 2013; Woodcock et al. 2013).”
• Pollination efficiency and foraging behaviour of honey bees and non‐Apis bees to sweet cherry (2019, background): “Indeed, Woodcock et al. (2013) did not find pollination performance (visitation rate, stigma contact, row changes and pollen collection) of honey bees and wild pollinators to be influenced by landscape structure.”
• Do sown flower strips boost wild pollinator abundance and pollination services in a spring-flowering crop? A case study from UK cider apple orchards (2017, background): “Therefore, such flower mixes 531 are unlikely to support pollination services in apple, or other important crops 532 pollinated by andrenid bees, including sweet cherry (Holzschuh et al. 2012), 533 blueberry (Blaauw & Isaacs 2014), and oilseed rape (Woodcock et al. 2013).”
• Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016, background): “…3; Garibaldi et al., 2014; 295 Jauker et al., 2012; Rader et al., 2013; Stanley et al., 2013; Thomson and Goodell, 2001; 296 Vicens and Bosch, 2000; Woodcock et al., 2013), and that long tongued wild pollinators can 297 effectively pollinate plants that may not be accessible for short-tongued…”
• Measuring the economic value of pollination services: principles, evidence and knowledge gaps. (2015, background): “The efficiency of individual pollinator species, is in turn a product of their effectiveness as pollinators (E), usually in terms of pollen grains deposited/visit (e.g. Winfree et al., 2011), their visitation rate/period (T) (e.g. Woodcock et al., 2013).”
• Providing foraging resources for solitary bees on farmland: current schemes for pollinators benefit a limited suite of species (2017, background): “Solitary bees from the genera Andrena, Osmia and Lasioglossum are more efficient pollinators of oilseed rape than bumblebees and honeybees in Britain (Woodcock et al. 2013).”