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Alfalfa and Red Clover as Sources of Nectar and Pollen for Honey, Bumble, and Leaf-cutter Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. A. Hobbs
G. A. Hobbs
Affiliation:
Field Crop Insect Section, Science Service Laboratory Lethbridge, Alberta
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The most important factor affecting the densities of pollinating species of bees on alfalfa seed fields in southern Alberta is competing flowering growth (Hobbs and Lilly, 1954, 1955). This is a report on the relative attractiveness of red clover and alfalfa to honey, bumble, and leaf-cutter bees in southern Alberta. Observations were made on the first crops grown in each of two newly cultivated and irrigated areas near Hays; the fields were isolated from all other entomophilous crops by at least five miles of virgin prairie. A third series of observations was made on crops grown in the isolated river valley near Lethbridge previously described by Hobbs and Lilly (1955).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 89 , Issue 5 , May 1957 , pp. 230 - 235
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1957

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