Pollen trapping and sugar syrup feeding of honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) enhance pollen collection of less preferred flowers

Tolera Kumsa Gemeda; Jilian Li; Shudong Luo; Huipeng Yang; Tingting Jin; Jiaxing Huang; Jie Wu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0203648

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Pollen trapping and sugar syrup feeding of honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) enhance pollen collection of less preferred flowers

Tolera Kumsa Gemeda,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jilian Li,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Shudong Luo,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Huipeng Yang,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Tingting Jin,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Jiaxing Huang ,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization

* E-mail: huangjiaxing@caas.cn(JH); apis@vip.sina.com (JW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5373-6108

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Jie Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

* E-mail: huangjiaxing@caas.cn(JH); apis@vip.sina.com (JW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China
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Pollen trapping and sugar syrup feeding of honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) enhance pollen collection of less preferred flowers

Tolera Kumsa Gemeda,
Jilian Li,
Shudong Luo,
Huipeng Yang,
Tingting Jin,
Jiaxing Huang,
Jie Wu

Published: September 12, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0203648

About the Authors

Tolera Kumsa Gemeda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Jilian Li

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Shudong Luo

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Huipeng Yang

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Tingting Jin

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Jiaxing Huang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Visualization

* E-mail: huangjiaxing@caas.cn(JH); apis@vip.sina.com (JW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5373-6108

Jie Wu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision

* E-mail: huangjiaxing@caas.cn(JH); apis@vip.sina.com (JW)

Affiliation Key Laboratory for Insect-Pollinator Biology of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Apicultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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