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Five named bee taxa collected the largest mean numbers of blueberry pollen tetrads.
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e0“Bombus griseocollis (DeGeer), B. impatiens Cresson, B. bimaculatus Cresson, B. perplexus Cresson, and Andrena vicina Smith collected the largest mean numbers of blueberry pollen tetrads.”
Title
Zachary Scott; Howard S. Ginsberg; Steven R. Alm Environmental Entomology 2016. doi:10.1093/ee/nvw094
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