Nutritional physiology of honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) workers across an agricultural land-use gradient dataset

These data describe land use (summed hectares of agricultural crops: corn, soy, and small grains), individual honey bee nutrition, honey bee colony population size, and proportional honey bee colony survival among 36 apiaries across Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Categories: Data; Tags: California, Central Valley, Great Plains, Great Plains region, Midwest, All tags... Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, agriculture, almonds, beekeeping, bees, biofuel crops, ecosystem services, environment, farming, grasslands, habitats, honey bee, land use, land use and land cover, pollination, pollinators, pollinators, Fewer tags

A comparison of honey bee-collected pollen from working agricultural lands using light microscopy and ITS metabarcoding datasets

Here we compare pollen identification results derived from light microscopy and DNA sequencing techniques of a robust number of samples collected from honey bee colonies embedded within intensive agricultural landscapes in the Northern Great Plains. We collected pollen samples from colonies within 6 apiaries in 2010 and 2011. For each pollen sample, we identified pollen grains via light microscopy and provide the number of grain counts-per-million. A separate aliquot of each pollen sample subjected to light microscope identification was also used for DNA sequencing analysis. We provide the plant operational taxonomic unit (OTU) for all base pair reads as the number of reads-per-million.

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Apis mellifera, Bees, DNA, DNA, DNA sequencing, All tags... Gene banks (genetics), Microscopy, North Dakota, Pollen, biota, forage, genetics, honey bee, land cover, land use, light microscopy, microscopy, plant species, pollen, Fewer tags