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  2. List of crop plants pollinated by bees - Wikipedia

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    Most of them are pollinated in whole or part by honey bees and by the crop's natural pollinators such as bumblebees, orchard bees, squash bees, and solitary bees. Where the same plants have non-bee pollinators such as birds or other insects like flies, these are also indicated. Pollination by insects is called entomophily.

  3. Habropoda laboriosa - Wikipedia

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    Habropoda laboriosa, the southeastern blueberry bee, is a bee in the family Apidae.It is native to the eastern United States. [1] It is regarded as the most efficient pollinator of southern rabbiteye blueberries, because the flowers require buzz pollination, and H. laboriosa is one of the few bees that exhibit this behavior.

  4. List of pollen sources - Wikipedia

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    The plants listed below are plants that would grow in USDA Hardiness zone 5. A good predictor for when a plant will bloom and produce pollen is a calculation of the growing degree days. The color of pollen below indicates the color as it appears when the pollen arrives at the beehive.

  5. Native bees keep Midwestern crops growing. Here’s how ... - AOL

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    Carpenter bees don’t get as much attention as honeybees, but they’re essential to cross-pollinate plants in Missouri and Kansas. | Opinion Native bees keep Midwestern crops growing. Here’s ...

  6. Here’s How To Get Rid of Carpenter Bees Once and for All - AOL

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    “An easy way to tell the difference between carpenter bees and bumble bees is that carpenters have a bald abdomen, or a ‘shiny hiney’,” says Becky Griffin, pollinator health associate with ...

  7. Fruit tree pollination - Wikipedia

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    Trees that are cross-pollinated or pollinated via an insect pollinator produce more fruit than trees with flowers that just self-pollinate. [1] In fruit trees, bees are an essential part of the pollination process for the formation of fruit. [2] Pollination of fruit trees around the world has been highly studied for hundreds of years. [1]

  8. Carpenter bees a spring buzzkill? What to do if you find ...

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  9. Carpenter bee - Wikipedia

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    However, carpenter bee nests are attractive to woodpeckers, which may do further damage by drilling into the wood to feed on the bees or larvae. [6] Carpenter bees have short mouthparts and are important pollinators on some open-faced or shallow flowers; for some they even are obligate pollinators, for example the maypop (Passiflora incarnata ...