Advances in the timing of spring cleaning by the honeybee Apis mellifera in Poland

作者：Sparks Tim H^*; Langowska Aleksandra; Glazaczow Adam; Wilkaniec Zdzislaw; Bienkowska Malgorzata; Tryjanowski Piotr

来源：Ecological Entomology, 2010, 35(6): 788-791.

DOI：10.1111/j.1365-2311.2010.01226.x

• Cleansing
• honeybee
• phenology
• Poland
• pollinators

2. This paper reports the advance of the first cleansing flight ('spring cleaning') of the honeybee in Poznan, Poland, i.e. flights to excrete faeces, over a month in the period 1985-2009. The timing of this flight is advanced not only by higher late winter/spring temperatures but also by higher temperatures in the previous summer and autumn.
3. This earlier activity gives hope that the reported earlier flowering of many native and cultivated species will not cause a pollination synchrony crisis.

• 出版日期2010-12