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Title	Honey bee diet in intensive farmland habitats reveals an unexpectedly high flower richness and a major role of weeds Read More: http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/14-1011.1
Author	Fabrice Requier, Jean-François Odoux, Thierry Tamic1 Nathalie Moreau, Mickaël Henry, Axel Decourtye and Vincent Bretagnolle
Date	2014-11-14
Description	The seasonal dynamics and composition of the honey bee diet remains poorly documented to date. In this study, we studied the seasonal contribution of mass-flowering crops (rapeseed and sunflower) vs. other floral resources, as well as the influence of nutritional quality and landscape composition on pollen diet composition over five consecutive years.
Keywords	Agri-Environmental Schemes, agricultural landscape, Apis mellifera L, floral resources, honey reserves, long-term monitoring, palynological identification, pollen collections, pollen quality
URL	http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/14-1011.1
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