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Good food in a nice setting: wild bees need diverse agricultural landscapes
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Göttinger Studie: Für Artenvielfalt bei Wildbienen braucht es diverse Ackerkulturen
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The yield and quality of many crops benefit from pollination, but it isn’t just honey bees that do this work: bumble bees also have a role.
The yield and quality of many crops benefit from pollination, but it isn’t just honey bees that do this work: bumble bees also have a role. However, placing honey bee or bumble bee colonies next to the field does not guarantee that they will visit the desired plants since there may be other plant species flowering at the same time that prove more attractive. A team from the University of Göttingen, together with researchers from the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida and the Julius Kühn Institute, used innovative molecular biological methods and traditional microscopy to investigate the pollen collecting behaviour of honey bees and bumble bees in agricultural landscapes. They show that bumble bees take much more pollen from different plant species than honey bees to satisfy their need for protein. Furthermore, less pollen
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Credit: Svenja Bänsch, University of Göttingen
The yield and quality of many crops benefit from pollination, but it isn t just honey bees that do this work: bumble bees also have a role. However, placing honey bee or bumble bee colonies next to the field does not guarantee that they will visit the desired plants since there may be other plant species flowering at the same time that prove more attractive. A team from the University of Göttingen, together with researchers from the University of Applied Sciences Mittweida and the Julius Kühn Institute, used innovative molecular biological methods and traditional microscopy to investigate the pollen collecting behaviour of honey bees and bumble bees in agricultural landscapes. They show that bumble bees take much more pollen from dif-ferent plant species than honey bees to satisfy their need for protein. Furt
Variety: Spice of life for bumble bees
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