Honey bees are important pollinators of South African blueberries despite their inability to sonicate

Published: 13 November 2019| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/5xx566dtvg.1
Contributors:
Keanu Martin,
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, Bruce Anderson

Description

This study consisted of three treatments namely pollinator exclusion, honey bee pollination and optimized hand pollination to see whether honey bees were an effective pollinator of the blueberry variety Ventura. Fruit set, fruit mass, fruit diameter, developmental period and adjusted fruit mass were all measured and compared among the three treatments.

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Stellenbosch University

Categories

Pollination, Agroecology

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