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Insects

Title:		Flowers in Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Pollinator Plantings and the Upper Midwest Agricultural Landscape Supporting Honey Bees
Author(s):		McMinn-Sauder H; Richardson R; Eaton T; Smith M; Johnson R;
Address:		"Department of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. Conservation Technology Information Center, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA"
Journal Title:		Insects
Year:		2020
Volume:		20200630
Issue:		7
Page Number:		-
DOI:		10.3390/insects11070405
ISSN/ISBN:		2075-4450 (Print) 2075-4450 (Electronic) 2075-4450 (Linking)
Abstract:		"A present goal of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is to manage land in agricultural landscapes to increase pollinator abundance and diversity. CP42, or the pollinator seed mix, is planted and managed to support foraging pollinators with blooming flowers present at all points in the foraging season. This high-quality habitat provides an excellent opportunity to study honey bee nutrition and determine whether honey bees located near CRP sites use known resources included in planting seed mixes. This study aims to highlight the primary sources of honey bee forage in the northern Midwest as well as to assess honey bee utilization of the floral resources provided by the pollinator seed mix used for CRP plantings. We received pollen samples collected using pollen traps by beekeepers in Ohio, South Dakota, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. Metabarcoding methods were used to identify and quantify pollen collected at different points in the season. The results indicate that honey bees frequently used major mass flowering resources such as Glycine, Trifolium, and Symphiotrichum throughout the season. In addition, flowers included in the CRP pollinator seed mix were used modestly. These results have implications for pollinator seed mix design"
Keywords:		Apis mellifera Cp42 DNA metabarcoding Glycine Symphiotrichum Trifolium citizen science pollen;
Notes:		"PubMed-not-MEDLINEMcMinn-Sauder, Harper Richardson, Rodney Eaton, Tyler Smith, Mike Johnson, Reed eng Switzerland 2020/07/08 Insects. 2020 Jun 30; 11(7):405. doi: 10.3390/insects11070405"