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Esquivel IL, Coulson RN, Brewer MJ. A Native Bee, . Insects. 2020;11(8)doi: 10.3390/insects11080487.
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Esquivel IL, Coulson RN, Brewer MJ. A Native Bee, . Insects. 2020 Aug 01;11(8). doi: 10.3390/insects11080487. PMID: 32752142; PMCID: PMC7469215.
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Insects. 2020 Aug 01;11(8). doi: 10.3390/insects11080487.

A Native Bee, .

Insects

Isaac L Esquivel, Robert N Coulson, Michael J Brewer

Affiliations

  1. Department of Entomology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
  2. Department of Entomology, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Corpus Christi, TX 78406, USA.

PMID: 32752142 PMCID: PMC7469215 DOI: 10.3390/insects11080487

Abstract

The cotton agroecosystem is one of the most intensely managed, economically and culturally important cropping systems worldwide. Native pollinators are essential in providing pollination services to a diverse array of crops, including those which have the ability to self-pollinate. Cotton, which is autogamous, can potentially benefit from insect-mediated pollination services provided by native bees within the agroecosystem. Examined through two replicated experiments over two years, we hypothesized that native bees facilitated cross-pollination, which resulted in increased lint of harvested bolls produced by flowers exposed to bees and overall lint weight yield of the plant. Cotton bolls from flowers that were caged and exposed to bees, flowers that were hand-crossed, and bolls from flowers on uncaged plants exposed to pollinators had higher pre-gin weights and post-gin weights than bolls from flowers of caged plants excluded from pollinators. When cotton plants were caged with the local native bee

Keywords: Melissodes tepaneca; cotton yield; pollination

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