Blueberries

Publications

Cane JH, Eickwort GC, Wesley FR & Spielholz J. 1985. Pollination ecology of Vaccinium stamineum (Ericaceae: Vaccinioideae). American Journal of Botany 72: 135–142.

Cane JH. 1986. The importance of native bees to rabbiteye blueberry pollination

Cane JH. 1997. Lifetime monetary value of individual pollinators: the bee Habropoda laboriosa at rabbiteye blueberry (Vaccinium ashei Reade). Acta Horticulturae 446: 67–70.

Cane JH. 2018. Blueberries. In: The pollination of cultivated plants: a compendium for practitioners. Rome: UN FAO, 142–145.

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 & Payne JA. 1990. Native bee pollinates rabbiteye blueberry. Highlights of Agricultural Research 37: 4-.

Cane JH & Payne JA. 1993. Regional, annual and seasonal variation in pollinator guilds: intrinsic traits of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) underlie their patterns of abundance at Vaccinium ashei (Ericaceae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 86: 577–588.

Payne JA, Cane JH, Amis AA & Lyrene PM. 1989. Fruit size, seed size, seed viability and pollination of rabbiteye blueberries (Vaccinium ashei Reade). Acta Horticulturae 241: 38–43.

Sampson BJ, Stringer SJ, Cane JH & Spiers JM. 2004. Screenhouse evaluations of a mason bee Osmia ribifloris (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) as a pollinator of blueberries in the southeastern United States. Small Fruits Review 3: 381–392.

Sampson BJ, Knight PR, Cane JH & Spiers JM. 2007. Foraging behavior, pollinator effectiveness, and management potential of the new world squash bees Peponapis pruinosa and Xenoglossa strenua (Apidae: Eucerini). HortScience 42: 459–459.

Sampson BJ, Cane JH, Kirker GT, Stringer SJ & Spiers JM. 2009. Biology and management potential for three orchard bee species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): Osmia ribifloris Cockerell, O. lignaria (Say) and O. chalybea Smith, with emphasis on the former. Acta Horticulturae 810: 549–556.

Sampson BJ & Cane JH. 2000. Pollination efficiencies of three bee (Hymenoptera : Apoidea) species visiting rabbiteye blueberry. Journal of Economic Entomology 93: 1726–1731.

Sampson BJ, Cane JH & Neff J. 1995. Blue bees for blueberries? Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station 42: 12–3,15.