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
Copyright
©2023 Madeline Roubik and Dr. Ai Wen
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Roubik, Madeline and Wen, Ai, "Forming a Comprehensive Pollen Library for the Purpose of Native Bee Pollen Identification and Analysis" (2023). Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP) Symposium. 14.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/surp/2023/all/14
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.
