Bee foraging and oligolecty

Publications

Buchmann SL & Cane JH. 1989. Bees assess pollen returns while sonicating Solanum flowers. Oecologia 81: 289–294.

Cane JH, Eickwort GC, Wesley FR & Spielholz J. 1983. Foraging, grooming and mate-seeking behaviors of Macropis nuda (Hymenoptera, Melittidae) and use of Lysimachia ciliata (Primulaceae) oils in larval provisions and cell linings. American Midland Naturalist 110: 257–264.

Cane JH. 2011. Specialist Osmia bees forage indiscriminately among hybridizing Balsamorhiza floral hosts. Oecologia 167: 107–116.

Cane JH. 2014. The oligolectic bee Osmia brevis sonicates Penstemon flowers for pollen: a newly documented behavior for the Megachilidae. Apidologie 45: 678–684.

Cane JH. 2017. Specialist bees collect Asteraceae pollen by distinctive abdominal drumming (Osmia) or tapping (Melissodes, Svastra). Arthropod-Plant Interactions 11: 257–261.

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

Cane JH. 2021. A brief review of monolecty in bees and benefits of a broadened definition. Apidologie 52: 17–22.

Cane JH & Buchmann SL. 1989. Novel pollen-harvesting behavior by the bee Protandrena mexicanorum (Hymenoptera:Andrenidae). Journal of Insect Behavior 2: 431–436.

Cane JH, Buchmann SL & LaBerge WE. 1992. The solitary bee Melissodes thelypodii thelypodii Cockerell (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae) collects pollen from wind-pollinated Amaranthus palmeri Watson. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 68: 97–99.

Cane JH, Dobson HEM & Boyer B. 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.

Cane JH & Love B. 2018. Pollen carryover between sequential foraging trips by a solitary bee: Implications for distant outcrossing. Journal of Pollination Ecology 24: 136–143.

Cane JH, MacKenzie K & Schiffhauer D. 1993. Honey bees harvest pollen from the porose anthers of cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon)(Ericaceae). American Bee Journal 133: 293–295.

Cane JH & Payne JA. 1988. Foraging ecology of the bee Habropoda laboriosa (Hymenoptera: Anthophoridae), an oligolege of blueberries (Ericaceae: Vaccinium) in the southeastern United States. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 81: 419–427.

Cane JH, Schiffhauer D & Kervin LJ. 1996. Pollination, foraging, and nesting ecology of the leaf-cutting bee Megachile (Delomegachile) addenda (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) on cranberry beds. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 89: 361–367.

Cane JH & Sipes S. 2006. Floral specialization by bees: analytical methods and a revised lexicon for oligolecty. In: Waser NM, Ollerton J, eds. Plant-Pollinator Interactions: From Specialization to Generalization. Chicago, Illinois USA: Univ. Chicago, 99–122.

Pitts-Singer TL & Cane JH. 2011. The alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata: The world’s most intensively managed solitary bee. Annual Review of Entomology 56: 221–237.

Wcislo WT & Cane JH. 1996. Floral resource utilization by solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) and exploitation of their stored foods by natural enemies. Annual Review of Entomology 41: 195–224.