Foraging Behaviour of Honeybees and Bumble Bees on Brussels Sprout Grown to Produce Hybrid Seed
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Apicultural Research
- Vol. 22 (2) , 94-97
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.1983.11100566
Abstract
Bees foraging on Brussels sprout Brassica oleraceo L. plants grown for hybrid seed usually preferred to visit one cultivar, but not to the exclusion of the other. Sometimes honeybees and bumble bees discriminated almost completely between the cultivars present, even on a caged plot. The need is stressed for growers to use cultivars between which bees do not discriminate.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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