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Food-Gathering Behaviour of Honey, Bumble, and Leaf-Cutter Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in Alberta1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

G. A. Hobbs ,
W. O. Nummi  and
J. F. Virostek
G. A. Hobbs
Affiliation:
Research Station Canadaa Department of Agriculture, Lethbridge, Alberta
W. O. Nummi
Affiliation:
Research Station Canadaa Department of Agriculture, Lethbridge, Alberta
J. F. Virostek
Affiliation:
Research Station Canadaa Department of Agriculture, Lethbridge, Alberta
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In the prairie region of Western Canada certain species of bumble bees are the principal pollinators of red clover, Trifolium pratense L. (Hobbs, 1957). Certain bumble and leaf-cutter bees are the only effective pollinators of alfalfa, Medicago sativa L., in Western Canada (Hobbs and Lilly, 1954; Hobbs, 1956; Peck and Bolton, 1946; Stephen, 1955). Unfortunately, bumble and leaf-cutter bees are seldom very abundant.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 93 , Issue 6 , June 1961 , pp. 409 - 419
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1961

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