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A honey bee collecting nectar from an apricot flower.. The nectar resource in a given area depends on the kinds of flowering plants present and their blooming periods. Which kinds grow in an area depends on soil texture, soil pH, soil drainage, daily maximum and minimum temperatures, precipitation, extreme minimum winter temperature, and growing degre
Dry pollen, is a food source for bees, which may contain 16–30% protein, 1–10% fat, 1–7% starch, many vitamins, some micro nutrients, and possibly a little sugar. The protein source needed for rearing one worker bee from larval to adult stage requires approximately 120 to 145 mg of pollen.
This is a list of crop plants pollinated by bees along with how much crop yield is improved by bee pollination. [1] 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 ...
Number of hives needed per unit area of crop pollination [6] Common name number of hives per acre number of hives per hectare number of bee visits per square meter/minute Alfalfa [7] 1, (3–5) 2.5, (4.9–12) Almonds 2–3 4.9–7.4 Apples (normal size) 1 2.5 Apples (semi dwarf) 2 4.9 Apples (dwarf) 3 7.4 Apricots 1 2.5 Blueberries 3–4 7.4–9.9
(children's state flower) Mirabilis jalapa: 2015 [10] Delaware: Peach blossom: Prunus persica: 1953 [11] District of Columbia: American Beauty Rose: Rosa: 1925 [4] Florida: Orange blossom (state flower) Citrus sinensis: 1909 [12] Tickseed (state wildflower) Coreopsis spp. 1991 [13] Georgia: Cherokee rose (state floral emblem) Rosa laevigata ...
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This category contains the native flora of Florida as defined by the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included; taxa of higher ranks (e.g. genus) are only included if monotypic or endemic. Include taxa here that are endemic or have restricted distributions (e.g. only a few countries).
The number of managed colonies in the United States for honey production has been in decline since the 1940s and these losses have increased since the early 2000s. Colony losses during winter are normal within beekeeping, however the rate of honeybee colony deaths, higher losses during the summer, as well as the inability to find a determinate ...