Bitter orange: bees and pollination
Pollinators contribute a small part of the yield of bitter orange.
How much of the yield depends on pollinators
Little: less than 10% yield loss without pollinators (1-9%)
Pollinators contribute a small part of the yield of bitter orange.
Loss without pollinators: 1 to 9 percent
The classification comes from the PLLNT11 dataset of the EU Pollinator Hub, based on Klein and others (2007). It is a range for the crop as a whole; varieties and growing methods can differ, for example self-pollinating varieties or greenhouse growing with bumblebees.
Which bees visit bitter orange
The open sources contain no record of a bee on this crop yet. That does not mean bees do not visit, only that it has not been recorded in an open dataset.
Sources
This page only uses sources with an open licence. The bee database itself contains more records, from sources for which permission is still pending.
- EU Pollinator Hub PLLNT11.0.0 Pollination: dependency of crops on animal pollination
EU Pollinator Hub (EFSA / BeeLife), Zenodo · version PLLNT11.0.0 · licence CC BY 4.0
Rubinigg, M. (2023). Pollination (PLLNT11.0.0). EU Pollinator Hub. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18008331 (CC BY 4.0). Based on Klein, A.-M. et al. (2007). Proc. R. Soc. B 274: 303-313. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3721
doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18008331
Crops with the same dependence
Which bees fly around your field?
In the FairGrow bee database you see the species in the cells around your own fields and apiaries, with flight weather and forage landscape.