Foraging Behavior of Honey Bees on Manchurian Crabapple and Red Delicious Apple
Abstract
'Manchurian' crabapple pollinizer trees bloomed several days before red 'Delicious' trees. Of the honey bees collecting nectar, 98% foraged from the top of 'Manchurian' flowers but only 44% topworked 'Delicious' flowers. Topworkers spent less time per flower on . Manchurian' than on 'Delicious'. Individual bees foraging from the side of the flower on 'Delicious' spent even less timc per flower than topworkers.
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