Bumblebee Pollination Information For Canadian Fruit Crops
June 11, 2024
deposits of pollen to flowers, maximizing fruit size and uniformity. Bumblebees will also on average visit twice as many flowers per minute than honeybees, having [...] longer duration – 8 seconds compared to 2-3 seconds by the honeybees. They will fly at lower temperatures (8C), in worse weather (clouds/wind/rain) and work [...] and cultivar, but typically the rate is 1 QUAD per 1-2.5 acres. Bumblebees will not drift to neighboring fields the way honeybees do. Overall, it has been