Abstract
Cover crops can be planted in rotation with cash crops to improve soils, assist in weed growth prevention, and help suppress plant pathogenic nematode populations. Experiments were conducted in northern and north-central Florida to evaluate bee populations within cover crop plants, including sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.), sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench × S. bicolor var. sudanense [Piper] Stapf.), and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.). Almost 150 bees in 10 species and over 700 bees in 15 species were collected in pan (bee bowls) and blue vane traps, respectively. Both sets of traps captured bees from within all cover crop plots, indicating that these bees forage in disturbed habitats. The dominant bees collected, Melissodes spp., are ground-nesting solitary bees which may have been utilizing the ground below the plants and the border plot areas as a nesting site. Only a subset of the species composition associated with the cover crops was relevant to the pollination of sunn hemp, which requires large-bodied bees such as species of Xylocopa and Megachile.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 419-424 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Florida Entomologist |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 1 2020 |
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- Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
- Insect Science
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Comparison of Bee Composition in Sunn Hemp and Other Cover Crops. / Meagher, Robert L.; Watrous, Kristal M.; Fleischer, Shelby J. et al.
In: Florida Entomologist, Vol. 103, No. 4, 01.12.2020, p. 419-424.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Comparison of Bee Composition in Sunn Hemp and Other Cover Crops
AU - Meagher, Robert L.
AU - Watrous, Kristal M.
AU - Fleischer, Shelby J.
AU - Nagoshi, Rodney N.
AU - Brown, James T.
AU - Westbrook, John K.
N1 - Funding Information: We thank the staff at the University of Florida Plant Science Research and Education Unit in Citra, Florida, for planting and management of the sunn hemp plots. Thanks also to Cory Stanley-Stahr and Steven Pelkey (EAG Laboratories, Alachua, Florida, USA) for identification of the bee and wasp floral visitors, and to Amy Rowley, Stephanie Velez, and Rebecca Rabinowitz (USDA-ARS) for technical support. The use of trade, firm, or corporation names in this publication is for the information and convenience of the reader. Such use does not constitute an official endorsement or approval by the United States Department of Agriculture or the Agricultural Research Service of any product or service to the exclusion of others that may be suitable. This work was supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, US Department of Agriculture, under Agreement No. 2011-67003- 30209. 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Naturkunde in Berlin 氀?oologische ?eihe 圀 W ? Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Florida Entomological Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - Cover crops can be planted in rotation with cash crops to improve soils, assist in weed growth prevention, and help suppress plant pathogenic nematode populations. Experiments were conducted in northern and north-central Florida to evaluate bee populations within cover crop plants, including sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.), sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench × S. bicolor var. sudanense [Piper] Stapf.), and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.). Almost 150 bees in 10 species and over 700 bees in 15 species were collected in pan (bee bowls) and blue vane traps, respectively. Both sets of traps captured bees from within all cover crop plots, indicating that these bees forage in disturbed habitats. The dominant bees collected, Melissodes spp., are ground-nesting solitary bees which may have been utilizing the ground below the plants and the border plot areas as a nesting site. Only a subset of the species composition associated with the cover crops was relevant to the pollination of sunn hemp, which requires large-bodied bees such as species of Xylocopa and Megachile.
AB - Cover crops can be planted in rotation with cash crops to improve soils, assist in weed growth prevention, and help suppress plant pathogenic nematode populations. Experiments were conducted in northern and north-central Florida to evaluate bee populations within cover crop plants, including sunn hemp (Crotalaria juncea L.), sorghum-sudangrass (Sorghum bicolor [L.] Moench × S. bicolor var. sudanense [Piper] Stapf.), and cowpea (Vigna unguiculata [L.] Walp.). Almost 150 bees in 10 species and over 700 bees in 15 species were collected in pan (bee bowls) and blue vane traps, respectively. Both sets of traps captured bees from within all cover crop plots, indicating that these bees forage in disturbed habitats. The dominant bees collected, Melissodes spp., are ground-nesting solitary bees which may have been utilizing the ground below the plants and the border plot areas as a nesting site. Only a subset of the species composition associated with the cover crops was relevant to the pollination of sunn hemp, which requires large-bodied bees such as species of Xylocopa and Megachile.
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