Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Biocontrol: New Alliances Between Old Friends

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2008
Authors
Kevan, Peter G.
Kapongo, Jean-Pierre
AI-mazra'awi, Mohammad
Shipp, Les
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Oxford Scholarship Online
Abstract

The capacity of bees to vector spores, bacteria, and viruses can be turned to our advantage by using them to transport biological control agents, a technique known as pollinator biocontrol vector technology (Kevan et aI., 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005). This chapter describes the range of biocontrol agents useful for this technique and the targets against which they can be used.

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honey bee, bumble bee, biocontrol, pollination, agricultural ecosystems
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Kevan, P.G., Kapongo, Jean-Pierre, Al-mazra'awi, Mohammad, and Shipp, Les. 2008. Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Biocontrol: New Alliances Between Old Friends. In Rosalind James and Theresa L. Pitts-Singer (Eds.), Bee Pollination in Agricultural Ecosystems. Oxford Scholarship Online. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195316957.003.0005
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