A productive Southern blueberry bee will visit as many as 50,000 flowers in its lifetime, resulting in around 6,000 blueberries. 9. They Are in Danger of Extinction ...

Climate can vary across large areas of land, but it can also vary within much smaller areas such as farms. A new study by ...

Blueberries are a fascinating crop to study; as a native plant, they have their own specialized crew of pollinators that co-evolved with them, such as the Southern Blueberry Bee.These bees ...

That’s because about 35 percent of the world’s food crops depend on animal pollinators ... A single female southeastern blueberry bee pollinates around 50,000 blueberry flowers that produce ...

A head-on view of a native species of bee called Osmia atriventris, known for pollinating blueberry flowers.Credit: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab/CC BY 2.0 Around this time of year, bees like ...

Getting an excellent rabbiteye blueberry harvest requires helpful pollinators -- particularly native southeastern blueberry bees -- although growers can bring in managed honey bees to do the job ...