Pollination | A Pollinator Health Podcast

174 -Veronica Wignall - Whacking bees for science: Competitive exclusion between honey bees and bumblebees in the UK

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Sinopsis

Honey bees and native social bees are important crop pollinators and key parts of healthy native plant ecology. However, it’s very difficult to examine how these groups of bees interact in the floral landscape. In this episode, we discuss competition between bumble bees and honey bees in an landscape where they are both native, the UK, to uncover what influences they have on each other and the floral resources they share.