Crop Pollination by Bees

Crop Pollination by Bees

Readership
Entomology, crop science, plant breeding, ecology.
Main Description
The collapse of the ubiquitous honey bee population during the past 20 years has caused a pollination vacuum for many crops. Surveys and grower experience indicate that a crisis exists in pollinator populations.
This book is an accessible, practical and authoritative research-based guide to using bees for crop pollination. It emphasizes conserving feral bee populations as well as more traditional methods of culturing honey bees and other bees. It addresses the biology of pollination, culturing and managing bees for optimum crop pollination. Individual pollination requirements and recommendations for the world’s main crops are covered in 36 short chapters that make up the second part of the book.

Reviews
"In all, a fine, truly readable and eminently practical book which anyone who works in the pollination sector should not be without... Highly recommended".
John Phipps, Bee Biz, September 2002

Main Contents
• Benefits of Bee Pollination
• Bee Pollination
• Bees: An Overview
• Bee Conservation
• Honey Bees: Biology and Status as Pollinators
• Honey Bees: Simplified Bee-keeping for Pollination
• Honey Bees: Managing Honey Bees for Pollination
• Bumble Bees
• Alkali Bees
• Other Soil Nesting Bees
• Alfalfa Leafcutting Bees
• Orchard Mason Bees
• Carpenter Bees
• Bees and Pesticides
• Lucerne Seed
• Almond
• Apple
• Asparagus Seed
• Avocado
• Bean (Lima)
• Bean (Common, Green, Snap)
• Beet Seed
• Blackberry
• Blueberry
• Cabbage and Other Crucifer Seeds
• Canola Seed ( Oilseed Rape)
• Cantaloupe
• Carrot Seed
• Cherry (Sweet, Sour)
• Clover Seed (Alsike)
• Clover Seed (Crimson)
• Clover Seed (Red)
• Clover Seed (White, ‘Ladino’)
• Clover Seed (Sweet Clovers)
• Cotton
• Cranberry
• Cucumber
• Kiwifruit
• Onion Seed
• Peach and Nectarine
• Pear
• Pepper (Bell, Green, Sweet)
• Plum and Prune
• Raspberry
• Soybean
• Squash, Pumpkin and Gourd
• Strawberry
• Sunflower Seed
• Tomato
• Watermelon
• Priorities in Technology Development, Research and Education
• Appendices