Avocado Café
March 29, 2022
Avocado productivity: Understanding pollinators and their importance for avocado fruit set
Introductions (⛶)
Introductory Comments -
Arnon Dag Arnon Dag Presentation
Honey bee behavior and how they forage in avocado -
Arnon Dag Gordon Frankie Presentation
Pollinator Habitat Gardens Produce Diverse Native Pollinators that Visit Avocado Flowers in Greater Ventura -
Gordon Frankie Raffi Stern Presentation
Bumblebees improve 'Hass' avocado pollination and increase yield -
Rafael Stern Q & A (⛶)
Arnon Dag, Institute of Plant Sciences, The Volcani Institute, Israel
Related Papers and Links:
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) strains differ in avocado (Persea americana) nectar foraging preference
Presenter Bios and Abstracts:
Gordon Frankie, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management,
UC Berkeley
Raffi Stern, MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, Israel
Dag, Arnon; Fetscher, A. Elizabeth; Afik, Ohad; Yeselson, Yelena; Schaffer, Arthur; Kamer, Yossi; Waser, Nickolas; Madore, Monica A.; Arpaia, Mary Lu; Hofshi, Reuben; Shafir, Sharoni
Susan Cobey
Bee-breeder, Geneticist
Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility
UC Davis and Washington State University
The New World Carnolian Project (YouTube)
Susan Cobey, 2016
Pollination ecosystem services in South
African agricultural systems
Melin, Annalie; Rouget Matthieu; Midgley, Jeremy J.; Donaldson, John S.
A world without bees - The global bee decline and
how we can stop it
(YouTube)
DW Documentary
Bee extinction: Why we're saving the wrong bees
(YouTube)
DW Documentary
Bees: Prodigious Pollinators
(YouTube)
Washington State University Extension
Pollination and Protecting Pollinators
(YouTube)
Washington State University Extension
Selection Methods for Honey Bee Breeding
(YouTube)
Washington State University Extension
What are the Best Avocado Pollination Conditions?
Greg Alder
A review on role of bumblebee pollination in fruits and vegetables
Rohit Kumar Nayak, Kiran Rana, Vinod Kumar Bairwa, Paramveer Singh and V Divya Bharthi
Pollination Services Provided by Bees in Pumpkin Fields Supplemented with Either Apis mellifera or Bombus impatiens or Not Supplemented
Jessica D. Petersen, Stephen Reiners, Brian A. Nault
Importation of Non-Native Bumble Bees into North America: Potential Consequences of Using Bombus terrestris and Other Non-Native Bumble Bees for Greenhouse Crop Pollination in Canada, Mexico, and the United States
Kimberly Winter, Laurie Adams, Robbin Thorp, David Inouye, Liz Day, John Ascher, Stephen Buchmann
Impacts of honeybee density on crop yield: A meta- analysis
Orianne Rollin, Lucas A. Garibaldi
Stingless Bees Further Improve Apple Pollination and Production
Blandina Felipe Viana, Jeferson Gabriel da Encarnação Coutinho1, Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi, Guido
Laercio Bragança Gastagnino, Katia Peres Gramacho, Fabiana Oliveira da Silva
Neonicotinoids, bee disorders and the sustainability of pollinator services
Jeroen P van der Sluijs, Noa Simon-Delso, Dave Goulson, Laura Maxim, Jean-Marc Bonmatin and Luc P Belzunces
Sublethal imidacloprid effects on honey bee flower choices when foraging
Ahmed Karahan, Ibrahim Çakmak, John M. Hranitz, Ismail Karaca & Harrington Wells
Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being
Simon G. Potts, Vera Imperatriz-Fonseca, Hien T. Ngo, Marcelo A. Aizen, Jacobus C. Biesmeijer, Thomas D. Breeze,
Lynn V. Dicks, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Rosemary Hill, Josef Settele & Adam J. Vanbergen
The Xerces Society - Invertebrate Conservation
Types of Bumble Bees in California - Google Search
Status and Trends of European Pollinators: Key Findings from the STEP Project
Potts S., Biesmeijer K., Bommarco R., Breeze T., Carvalheiro L., Franzén M., González-Varo J.P., Holzschuh
A., Kleijn D., Klein A.-M., Kunin, B., Lecocq T., Lundin O., Michez D., Neumann P., Nieto A., Penev L., Rasmont
P., Ratamäki O., Riedinger V., Roberts S.P.M., Rundlöf M., Scheper J., Sørensen P., Stefan-Dewenter I.,
Stoev P., Vilà M., Schweiger O.
Understanding, Conservation and Protection of Precious Natural Resources - Bees
Garry Codling, Yahya Al Naggar, John P. Giesy, Albert J. Robertson
Bee-Ware: Investigating Bee Colony Decline and its Ecological Effects on Human Health
Daryl A. Mangosing
A Ukrainian hive which allows the bees to build a nest as they would in a hollow tree
Priyatelenko, V.Ya., Ilienko, E.I., Fursov, V.N.
Ode to the Beekeepers - Documentary Short Film (2021)
Interacting stressors underlie pollinator declines; bees feel the squeeze - Combined stress from parasites, pesticides and lack of flowers drives bee declines
Goulson, Dave, Nicholls, Elizabeth, Botías, Cristina, Rotheray, Ellen L.
Impact of Chronic Neonicotinoid Exposure on Honeybee Colony Performance and Queen Supersedure
Christoph Sandrock, Matteo Tanadini, Lorenzo G. Tanadini, Aline Fauser-Misslin, Simon G. Potts, Peter Neumann
Scientists fail to locate once-common CA bumble bees
Jules Bernstein
Colonies of Bumble Bees (Bombus impatiens) Produce Fewer Workers, Less Bee Biomass, and Have Smaller Mother Queens Following Fungicide Exposure
Olivia M. Bernauer, Hannah R. Gaines-Day, and Shawn A. Steffan
Australia killing tens of millions of bees to save its honey industry - Business Insider
Ryan Hogg
Enhancement of Avocado Pollination and Fruit Yield
Nickolas Wasser
Honey Bees: Estimating the Environmental Impact of Chemicals - James Devillers and Minh-Ha Pham-Delegue, Eds. 2002.
Honey of Colombian Stingless Bees: Nutritional Characteristics and Physicochemical Quality Indicators
Carlos Alberto Fuenmayor, Amanda Consuelo Díaz-Moreno, Carlos Mario Zuluaga-Domínguez, and Martha Cecilia Quicazán
From "Pot-Honey - A legacy of stingless bees". 2013. Patricia Vit, Silvia R.M. Pedro, David W. Roubik - Editors
Sweat Bees (Halictidae): Natural History and Pesticide Exposure
Dino J. Martins
From "Pollinator Safety in Agriculture". 2014. David Ward Roubik, Editor
Diversity patterns of wild bees in almond orchards and their surrounding landscape
Yael Mandelik and Uri Roll
Avocado crops as a floral resource for native bees of Chile
Víctor H. Monzón, Patricio Avendaño-Soto, Rodrigo O. Araujo, Rubén
Garrido and José N. Mesquita-Neto
Competition between honeybees (Apis mellifera) and native solitary bees in the Mediterranean region of Israel - Implications for conservation
Ofrit Shavit, Amots Dafni, and Gidi Ne'eman
Checking honeybee health by testing honey DNA
Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio News
The foraging behaviour of honey bees, Apis mellifera: a review
H.F. Abou-Shaara, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University, Damanhour, Egypt
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) on public conservation lands: A Risk Analysis
Catherine Beard, New Zealand Department of Conservation
Solitary Bees: conservation, rearing and management for pollination
Breno Magalhães Freitas, Júlio Otávio Portela Pereira
Bombus terrestris, pollinator, invasive and pest:An assessment of problems associated with its widespread introductions for commercial purposes
Amots Dafni, Peter Kevan, Caroline L. Gross, Koichi Goka
Biosynthesis of Sterols in Insects
Muyiwa A. Ayolotu
The New World Carnolian Project
(presentation at the National Honey Show)
Susan Corby
Stingless Bees
Dr. Tobias Smith, The University of Queensland