Honey bees are the most important managed pollinator worldwide and are vital to the
success of modern agriculture. Native, wild bees are also important pollinators in both …

Context To date, managing honey bees and wild bees within crop fields remains
challenging. Landscape structure is often overlooked when studying the pollination …

Honey bees are the most important managed pollinator in the world. Recent trends suggest,
however, that the demand for their pollination services is growing faster than the available …

Context From landscape variables to weather, multiple environmental factors affect honey
bees and other pollinators. Detailed honey bee colony assessments in a variety of …

Foraging honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) can routinely travel as far as several kilometers from
their hive in the process of collecting nectar and pollen from floral patches within the …

Pollination services are affected by landscape context, farming management and pollinator
community structure, all of which impact flower visitation rates, pollen deposition and final …

Forage availability has been suggested as one driver of the observed decline in honey
bees. However, little is known about the effects of its spatiotemporal variation on colony …

Although both managed and unmanaged bees are important pollinators of crops and wild
plants, efforts to address questions about landscapes that best support pollinators often …

We assessed the pollinator community of two cultivars of highbush blueberry (Vaccinium
corymbosum, Duke and Bluecrop), and determined the importance of different pollinators to …

Eaton, LJ and Nams, VO 2012. Honey bee stocking numbers and wild blueberry production
in Nova Scotia. Can. J. Plant Sci. 92: 1305–1310. Wild blueberries (Vaccinium angustifolium …