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INSECT POLLINATION [5 records]

Record 1 2007-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Materials
  • Vegetable Crop Production
CONT

Greenhouse plastics affect tomato pollination by influencing bee activity and bee loss through the ventilation systems. There is a significant difference in bee loss among plastic types ... . CT plastic, one of the less commonly used greenhouse plastics, experienced less bee loss than AT Duratherm, Patilux, and both AT Bee Poly and De Klerk together ... . The likely explanation for these results is that under CT plastic, bees are less able to visually detect the open vents because of the relatively small contrast between the transmitted light and the light through the vents. Our spectrophotometry results ... indicate that of the plastics tested, only CT plastic allows transmission of UV light. Because of this, fewer bees fly out of these greenhouses and die during the winter months.

OBS

Greenhouse tomatoes and pollination by bumblebees.... Bumble bee keeping in greenhouses has encountered some problems because of the escape of the bees... through open vents in late winter and early spring.... New understandings in insect colour vision(Backhaus 1993) have suggested ways by which the visual target of the open vents(daylight with UV)... versus the greenhouse roof and walls(attenuated UV) can be disguised by coloured transparent flaps or blocked by screening so that the bees are not attracted and can not escape. The former would be easier and cheaper. UV light encourages the germination of spores of grey mould(Botrytis), so UV opaque plastics are favoured.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières plastiques
  • Production légumière
CONT

Plastique de serre : contribution des matériaux plastiques à la maîtrise du microclimat.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Materiales plásticos
  • Producción hortícola
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Record 2 2004-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
CONT

The efficiency of entomophily in the hermaphrodite flower is based on the deposition of pollen on the stigma while the insect is gathering pollen for food at the same visit.(Pollination Mechanisms Reproduction and Plant Breeding, 1977, p. 52).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
DEF

Pollinisation d'un végétal par l'intermédiaire d'un insecte.

CONT

En confiant la poudre fertilisante non plus aux caprices du vent [...] mais à l'insecte, dont on sait [...] qu'il va d'une fleur à l'autre, l'entomophilie augmente l'efficacité reproductrice des individus et les chances de survie des espèces. (Évolution et sexualité des plantes, 1970, page 111).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
DEF

Polinización realizada por insectos.

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Record 3 2004-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

The transfer of pollen to the female part of the plant by insects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Transport du pollen vers la fleur femelle de la plante par les insectes.

CONT

La pollinisation entomophile notamment par les abeilles et beaucoup d'autres hyménoptères est tributaire des conditions météorologiques qui peuvent être plus ou moins favorables au vol et au travail des insectes.

OBS

Types de pollinisation : La pollinisation se fait par le transport du pollen depuis les étamines au stigmate. Ce transport peut être effectué par différents vecteurs ou transporteurs : le vent (pollinisation anémophile), l'eau (hydrophile), les animaux (zoophile) dont : les mollusques (malacophile), les oiseaux (ornithophile), les insectes (entomophile).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Biología vegetal
DEF

Transporte de polen por insectos a la parte femenina de las plantas.

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Record 4 2003-11-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Horticulture
  • Zoology
CONT

Pollination biology.... pollination : transfer of pollen from an anther to a stigma involving one or more flowers.... anemophily(wind)... entomophily(insect)... ornithophily(birds)... chiropterophily(bat)... hydrophily(water)... nectar : watery fluid containing sugar and other dissolved materials secreted by special glands nectaries : floral(on flowers) and extrafloral(elsewhere).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Horticulture
  • Zoologie
DEF

Pollinisation par les chauve-souris.

OBS

chiroptérogame, syn. : chéiroptérophile (adj.) : Se dit des fleurs dont la pollinisation est assurée par la visite de chauve-souris.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Botánica
  • Horticultura
  • Zoología
DEF

Polinización a través de murciélagos.

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Record 5 2003-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plastic Materials
  • Optics
  • Beekeeping
  • Vegetable Crop Production
CONT

Greenhouse plastics effect tomato pollination by influencing bee activity and bee loss through the ventilation systems. There is a significant difference in bee loss among plastic types ... . CT plastic, one of the less commonly used greenhouse plastics, experienced less bee loss than AT Duratherm, Patilux, and both AT Bee Poly and De Klerk together ... . The likely explanation for these results is that under CT plastic, bees are less able to visually detect the open vents because of the relatively small contrast between the transmitted light and the light through the vents. Our spectrophotometry results ... indicate that of the plastics tested, only CT plastic allows transmission of UV light. Because of this, fewer bees fly out of these greenhouses and die during the winter months.

OBS

Greenhouse tomatoes and pollination by bumblebees.... Bumble bee keeping in greenhouses has encountered some problems because of the escape of the bees... through open vents in late winter and early spring.... New understandings in insect colour vision(Backhaus 1993) have suggested ways by which the visual target of the open vents(daylight with UV)... versus the greenhouse roof and walls(attenuated UV) can be disguised by coloured transparent flaps or blocked by screening so that the bees are not attracted and can not escape. The former would be easier and cheaper. UV light encourages the germination of spores of grey mould(Botrytis), so UV opaque plastics are favoured.

Key term(s)
  • colored transparent plastic

French

Domaine(s)
  • Matières plastiques
  • Optique
  • Élevage des abeilles
  • Production légumière

Spanish

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