Claim · model-written summary
Authors recommend conserving bees near flowering fields.
- Taxon
- G. abissynicae0
- Interactor
- beesAnthophilae0pollinator
- Outcome
- conserve beese0
Verbatim
e0“it is also important to conserve bees in the vicinity of G. abissynica fields during the flowering period”
Title
Veereshkumar; K. M. Kumaranag; Dibyendu Deb; et al. Journal of Apicultural Science 2021. doi:10.2478/jas-2021-0005
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation Full anthesis occurred between 06.00 and 08.00 h.
- Observation Pollen dehiscence occurred eight to eleven hours after anthesis.
- Observation Stigma receptivity began nine hours after anthesis.
- Observation Stigma receptivity lasted 24 hours.
- Observation Eighteen insect species in six families visited Niger flowers.
- Observation Apis florea and A. cerana were dominant flower visitors.
- Intervention effect Selfing florets yielded no seeds.
- Intervention effect Selfing capitula yielded no seeds.
- Intervention effect Open pollination yielded maximum seed set of 78.33±0.14%.
- Intervention effect Caging plants to exclude pollinators yielded 0.33±0.67 seed set.
- Observation A. cerana spent 1.35±0.48 seconds per floret.
- Observation A. florea spent 1.83±0.12 seconds per floret.
- Observation A. cerana spent 9.63±0.69 seconds per capitulum.
- Observation A. florea spent 14.9±0.94 seconds per capitulum.
- Observation A. cerana and A. florea were more efficient pollinators.
- Recommendation Authors suggest introducing bee colonies to improve Niger yield.