Pollen removal and deposition by honeybee and bumblebee visitors to apple and almond flowers

By James D. Thomson, K. Goodell. 2001

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

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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): “In contrast, honeybees contacted stigma less often (81% of visits), as 506 nectar-foragers can learn to perform lateral visits (known as ‘side-working’) and avoid 507 contact with sexual structures (Thomson & Goodell 2001; Vicens & Bosch 2000).”
Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination (2015, unknown): “Although the present study is limited to crop studies in which data were available for non-bee taxa, we do include several crops for which bees are assumed to be the primary visitors, such as almond and watermelon (77, 78).”
Pollination services are mediated by bee functional diversity and landscape context (2015, background): “In comparison to domesticated honey bees, wild bee species have multiple traits enabling apple pollination: they carry more pollen (Kendall & Solomon 1973), carry more compatible fruit pollen (Kendall 1973), transfer fruit pollen at a higher rate (Jacob-Remacle 1989; Thomson and Goodell 2001), show ”
Managing ecosystem services: what do we need to know about their ecology? (2005, background): “For example, honey bee visitors of apple remove greater amounts of pollen when more pollen is available (Thomson & Goodell 2001).”
Pollination services in the UK: how important are honeybees? (2011, background): “While recent studies have suggested that honeybees may not always be optimal or even effective pollinators of certain crops (e.g. Apples; Thomson and Goodell, 2001), they are easily managed, are active earlier in the year than many wild pollinators, and can be moved between crops in bloom…”
Pollination by wild bees yields larger strawberries than pollination by honey bees (2019, background): “During bee visits, we also observed and recorded whether bees foraged for nectar, pollen or both, as each of these foraging behaviours can influence pollination effectiveness (Javorek, Mackenzie, & Vander Kloet, 2002; Monzón, Bosch, & Retana, 2004; Thomson & Goodell, 2001).”
POLLINATION DEFICITS IN UK APPLE ORCHARDS (2014, unknown): “That bumblebees may be effective apple pollinators and thus increase seed set follows findings by Thomson and Goodell (2001) who recorded that bumblebees deposited more pollen following visits to apple blossoms than honey bees.”
A multivariate search for pollination syndromes among penstemons (2004, background): “…yet compared pollen movement by pollen collectors and nectar collectors visiting Penstemon, data from other systems suggests that pollen collectors deposit a relatively small proportion of the pollen that they remove (Bertin 1982, Wilson and Thomson 1991, Vaughton 1996, Thomson and Goodell 2001).”
Larger pollinators deposit more pollen on stigmas across multiple plant species—A meta‐analysis (2020, background): “Bumblebees often collect significantly more pollen from anthers, and deposit more pollen on stigmas than honey bees (Thomson & Goodell, 2001; Willmer & Finlayson, 2014).”
Tropical Forest Fragments Enhance Pollinator Activity in Nearby Coffee Crops (2004, background): “In addition to yield experiments, studies of the relative pollination efficiency of common bee species would be informative because species are known to differ in their effectiveness as pollinators (Freitas & Paxton 1998; Thomson & Goodell 2001; Kremen et al. 2002).”
Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016, background): “…certain plant species than honeybees (Figure 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…”
Function and Evolution of Aggregated Pollen in Angiosperms (2008, background): “…1991; van der Meulen 1992 (two species); Aizen and Raffaele 1996; Freitas and Paxton 1998; Harder 2000 (three species); Hiei and Suzuki 2001; Thomson and Goodell 2001 (two species) Tetrads Wilson 1995 Pollinia: Asclepiad Wyatt 1976; Bertin and Willson 1980 (two species); Kunze and Liede…”
Species richness of wild bees, but not the use of managed honeybees, increases fruit set of a pollinator-dependent crop (2015, background): “For example, large-bodied mining bees Andrena spp. and bumblebees Bombus spp. carry and deposit more apple pollen compared to honeybees (Kendall & Solomon 1973; Thomson & Goodell 2001).”
Measuring the economic value of pollination services: principles, evidence and knowledge gaps. (2015, background): “To date, studies on the efficiency of individual pollinators have focused on comparisons between different managed species (e.g. Thompson and Goodall, 2001) although more recent studies have begun to address the contributions of wild species groups (Winfree et al., 2011).”