Crop Pollination by Bees, Volume 2: Individual Crops and their Bees 2nd Edition

A Comprehensive Guide to Bee Pollinators, Volume 2

This book not only explores the evolutionary and ecological bases of the dynamics facing our agricultural bee pollinators, but it also translates this knowledge into practical, research-based guidance for using bees to pollinate crops. With the area of pollinator-dependent crops increasing globally, this book emphasizes conserving wild bee populations as well as culturing honey bees, bumble bees, and managed solitary bees.

Key Features

• Practical Guidance: It translates evolutionary and ecological knowledge into practical, research-based guidance for using bees to pollinate crops.
• Conservation and Culturing: It emphasizes conserving wild bee populations as well as culturing honey bees, bumble bees, and managed solitary bees.
• Crop-Specific Focus: Volume 2 focuses on crops, with chapters addressing crop-specific requirements and bee pollination management recommendations.
• Broad Audience: Both volumes are essential reading for farmers, horticulturists and gardeners, researchers and professionals working in insect ecology and conservation, and students of entomology and crop protection.
• Comprehensive Scope: To cover such a range of biology, theory, and practice from the perspectives of both the pollinator and the crop, the book is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on bees, their biology, coevolution with flowering plants, and foraging ecology and management.