Competition for nectar between introduced honey bees and native North American bees and ants.

W. M. Schaffer; D. W. Zeh; S. L. Buchmann; S. Kleinhans; M. V. Schaffer; J. Antrim

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Competition for nectar between introduced honey bees and native North American bees and ants.

W. M. Schaffer, D. W. Zeh, S. L. Buchmann, S. Kleinhans, M. V. Schaffer, J. Antrim

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Previous studies of introduced honey bees foraging at Agave schottii flowers suggest that Apis mellifera preferentially exploits the most productive patches of flowers and thereby reduces the standing crop of available nectar and the utilization of these sites by native bees. Results of experiments undertaken to evaluate this hypothesis are given and discussed using Apis, Bombus and Xylocopa. -Authors

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	564-577
Number of pages	14
Journal	Ecology
Volume	64
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/1939976
State	Published - 1983

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