Dandelion as a Competitor to Fruit Trees for Bee Visits
- 1 April 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Applied Ecology
- Vol. 5 (1), 169-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2401281
Abstract
1. Honeybee colonies in fruit orchards often collect much dandelion pollen. 2. Bees visiting dandelion become conditioned to it and, even when the dandelion flo...This publication has 7 references indexed in Scilit:
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