Claim · model-written summary
Female O. rufa provisioned a mean 2.96 cells each.
- Taxon
- P. cerasus
Prunus cerasuse1 - Interactor
- O. rufa
Osmia bicornise0pollinator - Outcome
- O. rufa provisioned a meane0
- Value
- 2.96 ± 1.44 cellse0
Verbatim
e0“Female O. rufa provisioned a mean of 2.96 ± 1.44 cells each with 6.24 ± 1.46 pollen types during the receptive period of flowering.”
e1“pollinator of P. cerasus cv. Stevnsbaer”
Title
Lise Hansted; Brian W W Grout; Torben B Toldam-Andersen; et al. Journal of Apicultural Research 2014. doi:10.3896/ibra.1.53.1.20
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Each provisioned cell had 6.24 pollen types on average.
- Observation O. rufa collected 17 pollen types.
- Observation P. cerasus pollen constituted 8.16% of collected pollen.
- Observation P. cerasus pollen occurred in all samples.
- Observation Anemophilous plants supplied 87.94% of pollen collected.
- Observation An estimated 220,000 O. rufa cocoons per hectare would be needed as an effective supplementary cherry pollinator.