Ohad Afik

TL;DR: Overall, wild insects pollinated crops more effectively; an increase in wild insect visitation enhanced fruit set by twice as much as an equivalent increase in honey bee visitation.

TL;DR: Av avocado honey and nectar were characterized with respect to their odor, color, and composition of sugars, phenolic compounds, and minerals, and how honey bees perceive these parameters, using the proboscis extension response bioassay and preference experiments with free-flying bees.

TL;DR: It was concluded that NIRS analysis may be used to detect to what extent honeybees have harvested avocado nectar but not to authenticate avocado honey as unifloral.

TL;DR: Investigating the existence of pollinator complementarity in both visitation rates and pollination efficiencies suggests further diversity effects on crop yield, and calls for taking into account the variability in pollination efficiency along spatiotemporal scales rather than considering it a constant, species-specific trait.

TL;DR: La troisieme experience a teste les performances d'apprentissage des abeilles a l'aide d'un test de conditionnement de l'extension du proboscis, suggere que le miel d'avocatier renferme un compose repulsif.