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Three Tips for Helping Wild Bumble Bee Queens Overwinter for Spring Crop Pollination
Johnson, Laura O.
Johnson, Laura O.
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This guide summarizes three ways wild bumble bee queens can be supported in the landscape for overwintering success and helping to ensure spring pollination of crops. Tips included are leaving blooms for pollen and nectar until the first hard frost, conserving rodent burrows as nesting sites, and how human built structures can also serve as overwintering habitat. Bumble bee queens will take advantage of a number of natural and human introduced resources if it supplies the resources and protection needed for survival.
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2022-01-01