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| | Pollinator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A pollinator is the agent that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower to accomplish fertilization or syngamy of the female gamete in the ovule of the flower by the male gamete from the pollen grain. | | | Sonicating bees are extremely efficient pollinators of tomatoes, and colonies of bumblebees are quickly replacing humans with vibrators as the primary pollinators for greenhouse tomatoes. | | | The most recognized pollinators are the various species of bees, which are plainly adapted to pollination. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator
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| | Pollinator decline - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Value of Honey Bees As Pollinators of U.S. Crops in 2000, Drs. | | | Alternative pollinators, such as for example, leafcutter and alkalai bees in alfalfa pollination and bumblebees in greenhouses for tomatoes are used to augment and in some cases replace honeybees. | | | The value of bee pollination in human nutrition and food for wildlife is immense and difficult to quantify. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinator_decline
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| | Solitary Bees: An Addition to Honey Bees |
| | These Osmia bees are more efficient pollinators of some crops than are honey bees. | | | Pollination of an acre of apples requires either 600 hornfaced bees (300 to 400 females), about 250 female blue orchard bees, or 20,000 or more honey bees. | | | Honey bees, other bees, pollination, bee pastures, etc., from the University of Georgia. |
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http://www.pollinatorparadise.com/Solitary_Bees/SOLITARY.HTM
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| | Wildlife Habitat Council - Pollinator Practices |
| | Pollination is a vital stage in the life cycle of all flowering plants. | | | For instance, a garden can be improved for pollinators by adding a large plot of native host plants for various butterflies or moths, or adding flowers that certain bees prefer such as beardtongue for bumblebees. | | | Pollination ensures that a plant will produce full-bodied fruit and a full set of fertile seeds. |
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http://www.wildlifehc.org/pollinatorpractices/index.cfm
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| | Sunflower Bee's a Great Pollinator! |
| | For the second kind of sunflower included in the experiment, however, those pollinated by the sunflower leafcutting bee produced seeds that were about 30 percent larger, on average, than seeds on plants pollinated by honey bees. | | | There, too, the bees were better than honey bees as outdoor pollinators of sunflowers. | | | A hard-working native bee can sometimes top the pollination prowess of the domesticated honey bee—even when badly outnumbered. |
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http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/sep99/sunf0999.htm
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| | GTOS :: TEMS database |
| | Watanabe, M.E. Pollination worries rise as honey bees decline. | | | Since the interactions between plants and their pollinators are essential to the healthy functioning of wild and agricultural communities, the decline of pollinator species presents a serious threat to biodiversity, the functioning of the world's ecosystems and food production. | | | Pollinators include bees, butterflies, moths, wasps, beetles, birds and bats. |
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http://www.fao.org/gtos/tems/variable_show.jsp?VARIABLE_ID=133
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| | Planning a Pollinator Garden |
| | Pollinators, which include thousands of insect species (bees, tiny wasps, butterflies, beetles, and flies) and other animals (such as hummingbirds and bats), unwittingly move pollen from the male anther of one flower to the female stigma of another as they search for sweet, nourishing nectar and fat- and protein-rich pollen. | | | Pollinators with shorter tongues, such as small native bees and wasps, feed on tightly packed clusters of small flowers, such as those found on milkweed, zinnia, phlox, and mint. | | | Trumpet or cup-shaped flowers, such as cardinal flower, honeysuckle, and bee balm, attract a wide range of pollinators. |
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http://www.kidsgardening.com/growingideas/projects/jan03/pg1.html
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| | Full Articles Pollinator conservation |
| | However, in the light of this major drive to conserve pollinators, Africa has scant baseline information on the relative abundance of pollinators and the pollination processes, which is essential to the success of the project. | | | Here is an example how: Pollinators, particularly bees, are sensitive to environmental degradation, and changes in their abundance and diversity will influence the abundance and diversity of the prevailing plant species. | | | Green plants are the primary food source for the earth's living biota and cross-pollination is fundamental to sexual reproduction in plants and its associated adaptive advantages for plants. |
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http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/pollinator.htm
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| | Blue Orchard Bee--A Champion Cherry Pollinator |
| | Many colonies of this familiar honey bee have been devastated in recent years by mites, beetles, and aggressive Africanized honey bees. | | | If pollen isn't ferried to cherry blossoms by insect pollinators such as this nimble bee, the flowers won't form the sweet, plump fruit that cherry aficionados love. | | | That may help explain why the cherry orchard that the blue orchard bees pollinated produced harvestable yields even in the years when bad weather robbed most cherry growers in the region of their crop. |
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http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/jan03/bee0103.htm
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| | Pollinator Declines Could Increase Food Prices |
| | Pollinators such as bees, bats, butterflies and birds play a key role in agriculture, transferring pollen from one seed to another. | | | Pollinator populations have been hit hard by increased pesticide use in recent years, and much of their natural habitat, such as dead trees and old fence posts, have been destroyed to make room for more farmland, Dr. Kevan added. | | | Their research states that there is ample evidence to suggest the existence of pollinator declines and that such declines are affecting agricultural productivity. |
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http://www.earthvision.net/ColdFusion/News_Page1.cfm?NewsID=17125
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| | Re: wild pollinator loss |
| | Then, document that bees are foraging, by showing bees on your flowers. | | | This includes not only honey bees but bumble bees and butterflies. | | | Pesticide misuse is one of the main reasons for loss of our pollinators, the bees. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/ecolandtech/agriculture/forums/sustainable-agriculture/msg00387.html
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| | Pollinator Conservation Handbook |
| | It is the first comprehensive book on the conservation of native bees, butterflies, and other native pollinator insects and is an indispensable resource for gardeners, farmers, and managers of parks, recreational areas, and wild lands. | | | The Pollinator Conservation Handbook is a new publication by the Xerces Society and the Bee Works. | | | Without pollinators, at least 80 percent of our flowering plants could not reproduce. |
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http://www.xerces.org/pubs_merch/PCH.htm
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| | EFFECTIVENESS OF THE ALFALFA LEAFCUTTER BEE AS A POLLINATOR OF LEGUME FORAGE CROPS |
| | A theoretical approach was used to predict the bee population required to pollinate varying flower densities. | | | The potential of the alfalfa leafcutter bee, Megachile rotundata (F.), to pollinate legume forage crops, other than alfalfa, was investigated. | | | Thirty plant species were evaluated using 3 treatments (caged with leafcutter bees, open pollinated, and pollinator excluded). |
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http://www.actahort.org/books/288/288_25.htm
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| | Dioecious Figs: Pollination And Evolution |
| | Therefore, seed production in female syconia and pollinator wasp production in male syconia are not diminished as in the syconia of monoecious figs with stratified ovaries containing all of the non-pollinator wasp species. | | | The dioecious syconia contain fewer competing species of non-pollinator wasps, resulting in a higher percentage of adult pollinator wasps emerging from the short-style flowers of male syconia and more mature seeds in the long-style flowers of female syconia. | | | According to Kerdelhue and Rasplus (1996), non-pollinator, parasitic wasps never occur in the long-style flowers of female syconia of female trees, and non-pollinator gall-makers are uncommon in the male syconia of male trees. |
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http://waynesword.palomar.edu/dawkins.htm
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| | Ecology: Fitness Impacts Of Herbivory Through Indirect Effects On Plant-Pollinator Interactions In Oenothera Macrocarpa |
| | For leaf and floral herbivores to influence female reproduction indirectly via pollinators, three conditions should be met: (1) some aspect of reproduction must be pollen-limited, (2) damage must affect floral traits, and (3) pollinators must discriminate against flowers on damaged plants (pollinator preference), or be less effective pollinators during visitation (pollinator efficiency) to those flowers. | | | Hand pollination increased fruit set by 60% and total seed number by 38% above that of naturally pollinated plants, demonstrating that female fitness was pollen-limited. | | | We conclude that decreased female reproduction was due to changes in floral traits from both leaf and floral bud damage, which affected hawk moth preference (flowers with smaller corollas received fewer visits) and hawk moth efficiency of pollen delivery (flowers with shorter floral tubes had fewer seeds). |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2120/is_1_81/ai_59555929
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| | Gap Analysis of Pollinator (bats, bees, hummingbirds) Species |
| | This value is usually attributed entirely to honey bees (Apis mellifera) when in fact, much of the credit and several billion dollars worth of crop pollination is due to native bees and other pollinators. | | | Habitat loss and degradation also affects these bee pollinators especially in areas of intensive agriculture and where riparian corridors are fragmented and rapidly disappearing. | | | Bats are unique and invaluable pollinators of crop plants (the "blue Agave" for mescal and tequila and many tropical fruits including bananas and durians) and seed dispersers. |
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http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc99/proceed/papers/pap530/p530.htm
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| | What's Buzzin' in My Garden |
| | Carpenter bees are much maligned because they bore into wood to make their nests, but they are valuable pollinators and should be protected. | | | She does do some pollination, but not as efficiently as the fuzzy honeybee or bumblebee. | | | This bee mimic is often seen visiting flowers, and does accomplish some pollination. |
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http://www.pollinator.com/identify/whatsbuzzin.htm
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| | The Pollination Home Page |
| | Pollinator Decline: Theme of current issue of Conservation Ecology Good articles on native bees, ignores honeybees and migratory beekeepers who have helped fill in the gap. | | | The first prerequisite to enhancing pollination is to know the preferences of the pollinator and the efficiency of the various pollinators for each plant species. | | | Learn how a migratory commercial beekeeper works to pollinate crops and make honey at Kutik's Honey Farm Lots of photos! |
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http://pollinator.com
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| | Amazon.com: Pollinator Conservation Handbook: A Guide to Understanding, Protecting, and Providing Habitat for Native ... |
| | Did you know that pollinators are responsible for two-thirds of the food in the US; that the activity of ground nesting bees improves soil texture, water and nutrient movement; the larval stage of beetles create tunnels in trees where bees can nest; we have approximately 4500 native bees - most of which do not sting?? | | | The color photos illustrations are not only splendid close-ups of insects and flowers, but images of the places that pollinators live, everyday sights that readers will recognize, and thus realize the ample opportunities there are for all of us to conserve these insects and the benefits they bestow upon us. | | | The handbook is comprehensive in coverage; from its introduction to pollination and pollinators, the threats these insects face, and the actions that can conserve them. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0974447501?v=glance
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| | POLLINATOR BIODIVERSITY A CO-ORDINATED CLOBAL APPROACH |
| | The importance of pollination to sustainable agriculture is widely recognised and entrenched in international mechanisms for the conservation of biodiversity and sustainable development. | | | The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and United Nation Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) are both concerned because of a general decline in pollination by natural pollinators. | | | VIII International Symposium on Pollination - Pollination: Integrator of Crops and Native Plant Systems |
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http://www.actahort.org/books/561/561_50.htm
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| | NAPPC Home Page (English) |
| | Indispensable partners in an estimated 1/3 of the food consumed by humans, pollinators allow the reproduction of more than 90% of flowering plants. | | | For people interested in promoting the protection of pollinators through responsible use, or avoidance, of pesticides. | | | Working to protect the pollinators of the North American continent |
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http://www.nappc.org
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| | Waser, Nickolas M.: Plant-Pollinator Interactions |
| | Just as flowering plants depend on their pollinators, many birds, insects, and bats rely on plants for energy and nutrients. | | | 14 A Typology of Pollination Systems: Implications for Crop Management and the Conservation of Wild Plants / Sarah A. Corbet | | | 3 Shifts between Bee and Bird Pollination in Penstemons / Paul Wilson, Maria Clara Castellanos, Andrea D. Wolfe, and James D. Thomson |
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http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/162151.ctl
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| | NAPPC Plans Page (English) |
| | Reduce pollinator mortality due to improper pesticide use | | | The number of commercially managed honeybee colonies in the U.S. has declined from 5.9 million in the 1940’s to 2.7 million in 1995. | | | Since its founding, the NAPPC has been instrumental in focusing attention on the plight of pollinators and the need to protect them throughout the tri-national region comprised of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. |
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http://www.nappc.org/plans.html
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| | Pollinator Insect Conservation - Gardening for Pollinators |
| | Growing a diversity of native plants whose blooming times overlap to provide flowers throughout the seasons. | | | Like all wildlife, pollinators need food and shelter, which you can provide by: | | | Whether you are a homeowner working in your own garden, a land manager for a city park, a farmer with field margins, or a steward for a nature preserve, there is something you can do to help pollinators. |
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http://www.xerces.org/Pollinator_Insect_Conservation/consinfo.htm
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| | Pollinator Company: Home of the Ice-o-lator, ice hash, bubblehash, extraction system |
| | The Pollinator Company has invented two extraction systems, the Pollinator, a dry sieving system and Ice-o-lator, a cold water extraction system. | | | Pollinator Company: Home of the Ice-o-lator, ice hash, bubblehash, extraction system | | | Used to make plant extracts for medical use, such as, ice hash, bubblehash, water hash and nederhash. |
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| | Coevolution Institute |
| | It is designed to help organizations that work with schools, private industry, public spaces, agriculture, forests and homes, to educate about and promote pollinator friendly land use practices. | | | Hurry, there is a limited number of posters left. | | | This document was created by participants in the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC). |
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http://www.coevolution.org
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| | Pollinator grinders |
| | * CNC machines made pollinators are standard fitted with strongest available magnet and |
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| | Buzzy's Pollinator Shock Pump from REI.com |
| | Cycling > Bike Pumps > Suspension Shock Pumps > Buzzy's Pollinator Shock Pump | | | After you subscribe, we'll e-mail you a coupon for 10% off your next purchase at REI. | | | This aluminum suspension pump features a Schraeder anti-leak chuck and a pressure-relief valve. |
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| | Pollinator - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Pollinator" is defined. | | | We found 9 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word Pollinator: | | | pollinator : Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 10th Edition [home, info] |
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