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Caring for Pollinators - Bundesamt für Naturschutz

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Roubik Small bees have a big job<br />

Proportional pollen use<br />

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Sapotaceae<br />

Malpighiaceae<br />

Centris pollen<br />

Fabaceae<br />

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Anacardiaceae<br />

Euphorbiaceae<br />

PRE-Apis<br />

POST-Apis<br />

How do invasive honey bees impact native bees? One long-term<br />

study utilized a natural experiment that occurred in a large biosphere<br />

reserve in Yucatan, Mexico. An abundant native bee, Centris analis,<br />

substantially shifted its floral resources to avoid competition with the<br />

honey bees, and it survived (R. Villanueva and D. W. Roubik, Why<br />

are African honey bees and not European bees invasive? Pollen diet<br />

diversity in community experiments. Apidologie 35:481-491; D. W.<br />

Roubik and R. Villanueva, <strong>Pollinators</strong> adjust to invasive honey bees,<br />

Biology Letters (in review).<br />

Unknown to many merchants, much of their produce comes from the<br />

work of pollinators- like the chile, mangoes, fruit and even chicle from<br />

the tree Manilkara, sold here in S. Mexico.

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