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| | Almond Pollination Leafcutter Bees |
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http://www.nutsguide.com/almond-pollination-leafcutter-bees.html
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| | Leafcutter Bees |
| | Leafcutter bees are native bees, important as pollinators. | | | Figure 3: Leafcutter bee nesting on porch, with sawdust. | | | Leafcutter bees are solitary bees, meaning that they don't produce colonies as do social insects (honeybees, yellowjackets, ants, etc.). |
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http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05576.html
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| | Alternative Pollinators: Native Bees |
| | Some of the larger groups of bees are discussed, including alkali bees, leafcutter bees, alfalfa leafcutter bees, bumblebees, sweat bees, squash bees, digger bees, orchard mason bees, shaggy fuzzyfoot bees, and hornfaced bees. | | | The alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata, is widely used for alfalfa pollination. | | | Leafcutter bees are solitary bees, usually grayish in color, native to woodland areas (1). |
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http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/nativebee.html
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| | Alfalfa leafcutter bee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee (megachile rotundata) is a species of bee cultured solely for pollination purposes. | | | As a solitary but gregarious bee species, it does not build colonies or store honey, but is a very efficient pollinator of alfalfa seed, carrot seed, and some other vegetables. | | | Effectiveness of the alfalfa leafcutter bee as a pollinator of legume forage crops (ISHS membership required) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfalfa_leafcutter_bee
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| | The term "wild bee" is used commonly for all bees except honey bees in the genus Apis (hence, apiculture or culturing of honey bees). | | | The alfalfa leafcutter bee, about half the size of the honey bee, is black with white-yellowish bands on the abdomen. | | | Like the alfalfa leafcutter bee, it carries light-colored pollen on the underside of its abdomen. |
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http://maarec.cas.psu.edu/bkCD/management/wild_bees.html
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| | Diversify With Pollen Bees |
| | Both leafcutter bees and alkali bees are superior to honey bees for alfalfa pollination because they work rapidly, stay in the crop, and "trip" the spring mechanism in the flower that releases the pollen. | | | For example, I keep a total of over a thousand hornfaced bees (Osmia cornifrons), fuzzyfoot bees (Anthophora pilipes), mustached bees (Anthophora abrupta), and alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata) at the bee yard here at Beltsville, where there are also 21 very active honey bee hives, with supers. | | | A few kinds of pollen bees, such as bumble bees and some sweat bees, are "eusocial," when the mother bee lives long enough to become a queen and have the assistance of her worker daughters. |
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http://www.pollinatorparadise.com/Solitary_Bees/Diversfy.htm
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| | Protecting Bees When Using Insecticides, G98-1347-A |
| | Bee species managed for pollination in the Midwest and their uses include bumble bees (used in greenhouses to pollinate cucumbers and tomatoes), orchard mason bees (tree fruits), leafcutter bees (alfalfa seed production), and honey bees (a variety of crops). | | | Granular insecticides generally are not hazardous to honey bees. | | | Relative toxicities of selected insecticides and miticides to honey bees. |
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http://ianrpubs.unl.edu/insects/g1347.htm
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| | Alfalfa Grown For Seed - Montana |
| | Alfalfa leaf-cutting bees are reared in Montana primarily for the purpose of pollinating alfalfa raised for seed. | | | Although honey bees are extensively used as orchard pollinators, the recent introduction of the Varroa and tracheal mites into the U.S. is decimating honey bee populations. | | | Alfalfa leafcutting bees (Megachile rotundata) are necessary for optimum seed set of alfalfa. |
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http://scarab.msu.montana.edu/extension/MT_cropprofile/MT_alf_seed.htm
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| | ALFALFA SEED PRODUCTION |
| | The alfalfa leafcutter bee overwinters as a pupa surrounded by dried alfalfa leaves; that is in-a cocoon. | | | The leafcutter bees should not be placed in the field before the alfalfa flowers. | | | It is important to time the emergence of these bees with the flowering of the alfalfa. |
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http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/performance_recommendations/ofcc/pub/alfalfa.htm
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| | Leafcutter bees caused more pollen to be deposited on stigmas of seed parent but yields of hybrid seed canola were similar in the leafcutter and honey bee zones of the field. | | | Leafcutter bees deposited about 20% more pollen than honey bees. | | | We conclude that leafcutter bees are just as effective as honey bees in pollinating hybrid seed canola. |
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http://scifair.ednet.ns.ca/AVRSF/projects/projects98/pollen.html
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| | RESEARCH PROGRESS REPORT |
| | The bees were not attracted to the flowers of the treated plants. | | | Erickson that honey bees increase the yield of common soybean cultivars, we felt it important to test the effect of honey bee visitation on the yield of 'Williams', the most widely planted soybean cultivar in Illinois. | | | However, the unit of measure for evaluating the bee populations must be the ratio of flowers/bee and not bees/ square yard as used in studies of other legume seed crops. |
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http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~stratsoy/ispob_db/lor_html/165.html
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| | Good Bug, Bad Bug: Leafcutter Bees |
| | Leafcutter bees do not aggressively defend their nesting territory, so they tend not to be a stinging hazard to humans. | | | Leafcutter bees feed on pollen, and seek plant foliage only to build their nests. | | | With their willingness to accept manmade nests and their tendency to forage close to those nests, leafcutter bees are increasingly managed on a agricultural scale for pollinating alfalfa, clovers, canola and blueberries. |
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http://www.bmi.net/roseguy/gbleafct.html
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| | Honey bee workers averaged 126.5 mg, female alkali bees averaged 86.6 mg and female alfalfa leafcutter bees averaged 30.8 mg in weight. | | | BEE POISONING TOXICITY, 1995-1998: These tests were conducted at Prosser, WA to determine the toxicity of pesticides to bees. | | | Aphistar, Dylox and Toxaphene were moderately toxic to bees. |
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http://www.entsoc.org/Protected/AMT/amt1999/L02.html
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| | Selection and Management of Bees for the Pollination of Soybeans |
| | The population of bees we found on the beans, as high as 1 bee per 1363 flowers, should be sufficient to set a good crop provided the beans used as parents for the hybrids are attractive to bees. | | | Soybean breeders have been skeptical about the ability of honey bees to do the job of crossing, and have tried to use alfalfa leafcutter bees, which generally do not visit soybean flowers. | | | To measure the field populations of bees on soybeans and learn to what extent they can be managed and manipulated to increase the number of flower visits made by the bees. |
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http://www.ag.uiuc.edu/~stratsoy/ispob_db/lor_html/167.html
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| | Homestead Magazine - Garden : John Deere |
| | Bee boards, or smaller bee blocks, are a great way to explore the world of native bees. | | | Many of North America’s 4,000 species of native bees are feeling the sting of habitat loss, the wide-scale use of insecticides, and the steep decline of local sources of nectar and pollen. | | | Osmia aglaia and alfalfa leafcutter bees—and, in fact, most native bee species—rarely deliver a painful sting. |
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http://www.deere.com/en_US/ag/homestead/articles/garden/bees_pollinators.html
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| | L1.htm |
| | BEE POISONING HAZARD, 1995-1998: These tests were conducted at Prosser, WA to determine the residue hazard of pesticides to bees. | | | Residual test exposures were replicated four times by caging 30 female honey bees, 20 female alfalfa leafcutter bees, or 20 female alkali bees with each of 4 samples per treatment and time interval. | | | Honey bee (HB); Apis mellifera L. Alfalfa leafcutting bee (LB); Megachile rotundata (F.) |
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http://www.entsoc.org/Protected/AMT/amt1999/L01.html
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| | Megachilidae |
| | Dioxys are brood parasites of Megachile, Anthidium and Osmia. | | | The Megachilidae are a cosmopolitan family of (mostly) solitary bees that carry pollen in specialized structures called scopae located under the abdomen (rather than on the hind legs like in the honey bee). | | | Osmia are mason bees, they build their nests in natural or artificial cavities such as hollow plant stems, abandoned nests of wood-boring beetles or carpenter bees, or snail shells. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/M/Megachilidae.htm
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| | ALFALFA LEAFCUTTER BEES ATTRACTIVE February 10, 1999 Farm Focus DAN WOOLLEY Truro, NS -- The Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee could serve Nova Scotia wild blueberry producers as a practical alternative pollinators to honey bees. | | | The leafcutter bee collects pure blueberry pollen as it collects leaf material to build its cells, but Dr. MacKenzie notes its leaf harvesting is not enough to harm the plant's yield. | | | Kenna MacKenzie of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada's Kentville Research Centre told the Wild Blueberry Producers Association of Nova Scotia annual meeting the Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee is increasingly attractive as honey bees increase in price and remain vulnerable to the threat of varroa mite. |
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http://archives.foodsafetynetwork.ca/agnet/1999/2-1999/ag-02-19-99-02.txt
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| | AgKnowledge: Number 71: Researchers Seek Balance Between Alfalfa Seed Yields and Healthy Bees |
| | Those generous numbers of bees, on the other hand, produce high seed yields but pollinate flowers so rapidly that the alfalfa plants divert their energy toward maturing seed pods—starving out the bees. | | | To manage alfalfa seed for bee survival, growers would put out fewer bees and keep their flowers blooming later into the season, says Strickler. | | | Each year, Idaho alfalfa seed growers spend about $150 an acre to manage their bees or to replace those they have lost. |
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http://info.ag.uidaho.edu/AgKnowledge/agknowledge71.htm
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| | Alfalfa |
| | Pollination is accomplished using the Alfalfa Leafcutter Bees. | | | An established field is cultivated in the spring to destroy weeds. | | | Furrow and Sprinkler: 24 inches of water per season |
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http://www.qa-lab.com/crops/alfalfa.htm
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| | Legislative Electronic Publications |
| | The bees are valued by seed producers as a means of increasing production returns. | | | July 11, 1996 AGRI-VENTURES FUNDING SUPPORTS DIVERSIFICATION - - - Export Markets for Bees to be Developed, Early Weaning Swine Production Investigated Alfalfa leafcutter bees and weaning swine are the two latest areas of agricultural diversification to be explored with funding from the Manitoba Agri-Ventures Initiative (MAVI). | | | These new ventures can contribute to the long-term strength and viability of the industry as well as the communities it supports." The funding to Kwest Investments Ltd. of Fisher Branch will be used to expand market opportunities for alfalfa leafcutter bees which are used to improve the seed set of alfalfa. |
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http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/press/top/1996/07/1996-07-11-01.html
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| | Roitberg Lab - Jason |
| | During my masters I was working on a project involving the Alfalfa leafcutter bee (Megachile Rotundata). | | | Forcing bees to fly to their food (Southern Alberta) | | | If you have any questions or want to talk leafcutter bees feel free to email me at jhpeters@sfu.ca |
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http://www.sfu.ca/~roitberg/lab/people/jason.htm
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| | Site Details : www.grevefarms.com/ : Greve Farms |
| | Offers agricultural products for crop pollinating and seeds, and supplies alfalfa and leafcutter bees. | | | Directory listings are provided by Open Directory and modified by saskatchewan.us | | | Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. |
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http://saskatchewan.us/siteinfo.php/www.grevefarms.com
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