Seasonal Pollen Collection by Honeybees from Grass/Shrub Highlands in Canterbury, New Zealand

Seasonal variation in vegetation and pollen collected by honeybees in Thessaloniki, Greece

“…Pollen traps are widely used to record the pollen flora of an area and to study the pollen diet of honey bees (Severson & Parry, 1981;Pearson & Braiden, 1990;Doull, 1966;Coffey & Breen, 1997;Nabors, 1997;Barth & da Luz, 1998;Cook et al, 2003;Webby, 2004;Andrada & Tellería, 2005). To record the pollen flora of the area we fitted pollen traps to the entrance of four honey bee hives.…”

Comparison of phenological, aerobiological and melissopalynological patterns of Olea europaea

“…At least two representative pellets of each colour fraction were mounded in glycerine jelly without acetolysis in order to identify the botanical origin of each colour. In each slide, we counted at least 300 pollen grains to verify the homogeneity of each colour fraction (Percival, 1947;Pearson and Braiden, 1990). Pollen loads from olea were polled together in order to evaluate their contribution, and the results were expressed as a percentage of the total amount.…”

“…Pollen traps have been used in several studies to record the diet of the bees (Severson and Parry, 1981;Pearson and Braiden, 1990;Telleria, 1993;Coffey and Breen, 1997;Webby, 2004;Andrada and Telleria, 2005;Dimou and Thrasyvoulou, 2007). Yet, few studies have compared the honeybee collected pollen to the flowering phenology of the plants in an area (Andrada and Telleria, 2005;Dimou and Thrasyvoulou, 2007).…”

Pollen analysis of honeybee rectum as a method to record the bee pollen flora of an area

“…Pollen traps have been used widely as a method to record the pollen flora of an area (Severson and Parry, 1981;Biesmeijer et al, 1992;Telleria, 1993;Pearson and Braiden, 1990;Coffey and Breen, 1997;Andrada and Telleria, 2005;Dimou and Thrasyvoulou, 2007). However, the use of pollen traps is not always feasible for some bee species nor desirable, since it may influence the nectar foraging behaviour of the colony in a negative way (McLellan, 1974;Webster et al, 1985;Duff and Furgala, 1986;Fewell and Winston, 1992;Dreller et al, 1999).…”

“…Pollen consumption varies with different worker-larvae ratios. More pollen is consumed when more brood is present (Al-Tikrity et al, 1972;Pearson and Braiden, 1990;Camazine, 1993;Hrassnigg and Crailsheim, 1998;Pankiw et al, 1998;Dreller et al, 1999;Dreller and Tappy, 2000). Generally, nurse bees consume high quantities of pollen compared to foragers or drones (Crailsheim et al, Corresponding author: M. Dimou, mdimou@agro.auth.gr * Manuscript editor: Jacqueline Pierre 1992; Szolderits and Crailsheim, 1993;Naiem et al, 1999).…”