2023 Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Symposium

Location

ScholarSpace, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Presentation Type

Open Access Poster Presentation

Document Type

poster

Abstract

The Iowa prairie is home to different species of bees who collect pollen for nutrition or nesting purposes (Real, 1983). Most bees collect pollen in their scopa, a small pollen collection pouch on their back legs. Because of this, it is assumed that a bee’s pollen collection will be more diverse on its thorax, where it unintentionally comes in contact with pollen, than its legs, where it intentionally collects pollen. (Real, 1983) In this study, we create a comprehensive pollen library of native Iowa prairie flowers, as well as analyze the pollen on various parts of a bee’s body.

Start Date

28-7-2023 11:00 AM

End Date

28-7-2023 1:30 PM

Event Host

Summer Undergraduate Research Program, University of Northern Iowa

Faculty Advisor

Ai Wen

Department

Department of Biology

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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Jul 28th, 11:00 AM Jul 28th, 1:30 PM

Forming a Comprehensive Pollen Library for the Purpose of Native Bee Pollen Identification and Analysis

ScholarSpace, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

The Iowa prairie is home to different species of bees who collect pollen for nutrition or nesting purposes (Real, 1983). Most bees collect pollen in their scopa, a small pollen collection pouch on their back legs. Because of this, it is assumed that a bee’s pollen collection will be more diverse on its thorax, where it unintentionally comes in contact with pollen, than its legs, where it intentionally collects pollen. (Real, 1983) In this study, we create a comprehensive pollen library of native Iowa prairie flowers, as well as analyze the pollen on various parts of a bee’s body.