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THE FIDELITY OF COMMERCIALLY REARED COLONIES OF BOMBUS IMPATIENS CRESSON (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE) TO LOWBUSH BLUEBERRY IN SOUTHERN NEW BRUNSWICK

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Troy L. Whidden
Troy L. Whidden
Affiliation:
Department of Biology, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B0P 1X0
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Lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Ait., V. myrtilloides Michx.) growers often use colonies of the European honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) to supplement native bee populations for pollination. Native bee fauna is thought to be insufficient in number and too unpredictable, in terms of numbers, from year to year to be relied on for adequate crop pollination (Kevan and LaBerge 1978; Mackenzie and Winston 1984; Mohr and Kevan 1987; Kevan 1988; Eck 1988).

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 128 , Issue 5 , October 1996 , pp. 957 - 958
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1996

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