Bee Diets

Publications

1. Cane, J. H. 1993. Reproductive role of sterile pollen in Saurauia (Actinidiaceae), a cryptically dioecious neotropical tree. Biotropica 25:493–495.

2. Cane, J. H. 2016. Adult pollen diet essential for egg maturation by a solitary Osmia bee. Journal of Insect Physiology 95:105–109.

3. Cane, J. H. 2018. Co-dependency between a specialist Andrena bee and its death camas host, Toxicoscordion paniculatum. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 12:657–662.

4. Cane, J. H., H. E. M. Dobson, and B. Boyer. 2017. Timing and size of the daily pollen meal eaten by adult females of a solitary bee (Nomia melanderi) (Apiformes: Halictidae). Apidologie 48:17–30.

5. Cane, J. H., D. R. Gardner, and P. A. Harrison. 2011. Nectar and pollen sugars constituting larval provisions of the alfalfa leaf-cutting bee (Megachile rotundata) (Hymenoptera: Apiformes: Megachilidae). Apidologie 42:401–408.

6. Cane, J. H., D. R. Gardner, and M. Weber. 2020. Neurotoxic alkaloid in pollen and nectar excludes generalist bees from foraging at death-camas, Toxicoscordion paniculatum (Melanthiaceae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 131:927–935.

7. Cane, J. H., and B. G. Love. 2021. Hygroscopic larval provisions of bees absorb soil water vapor and release liquefied nutrients. Apidologie 52:1002–1016.

8. Roulston, T. H., and J. H. Cane. 2000a. Pollen nutritional content and digestibility for animals. Plant Systematics and Evolution 222:187–209.

9. Roulston, T. H., and J. H. Cane. 2000b. The effect of diet breadth and nesting ecology on body size variation in bees (Apiformes). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 73:180–193.

10. Roulston, T. H., and J. H. Cane. 2002. The effect of pollen protein concentration on body size in the sweat bee Lasioglossum zephyrum (Hymenoptera : Apiformes). Evolutionary Ecology 16:49–65.

11. Roulston, T. H., J. H. Cane, and S. L. Buchmann. 2000. What governs protein content of pollen: Pollinator preferences, pollen-pistil interactions, or phylogeny? Ecological Monographs 70:617–643.