Honey bees mark artificial flowers with scents that
advertise about the previous history of the flower to
subsequent foragers. Unrewarding flowers are marked with a
scent, after a single visit, that makes the flower less
attractive to subsequent foragers. Previously rewarding
flowers are initially less attractive than unvisited
flowers but...
The early stages of secondary succession of the
McDonald and Paul Dunn State Forests, Corvallis, Oregon,
were grouped into three stages; herb, herb-shrub, and
shrub, based on vegetation types. Flowers of herbaceous
species and residual shrubs dominated in the early years
after clear-cutting. Woody plants became increasing
abundant in the...
Aspects concerning the bionomics of the parasitic honey bee brood mite, Varroa
jacobsoni Oudemans were investigated. Mite mortality is great during the winter season
when the host colony is not rearing brood, appearing to be independent of the mortality of
its host. In winter period, no significant association between the...
The number of drones and genetic diversity among drones are
essential components to a well mated queen. Varroa destructor
preferentially parasitizes drone brood, and is thought to be
responsible for the loss of feral populations that once provided
additional drones for honey bee mating areas. It is necessary to
use...
Field studies designed to study residual effects from fertilizer
molybdenum were initiated in September 1971 on established grass-clover
pastures at ten sites in Western Oregon. Treatments were 0.0
and 1.12 kg molybdenum /ha on plots receiving 0-35-0-20S fertilizer (elemental sulfur-S) and 0.0, 0.56, 1.12 and 2.24 kg molybdenum /ha on...
During the Spring of 1969, 47 surface soil samples (0 to 15 cm)
as well as foliage samples of subterranean clover were collected from
32 selected western Oregon pastures, in an effort to determine their
molybdenum status and to evaluate the use of anion exchange resin
method as a means...
Studies were undertaken on the Steiwer, Hazelair, Hedden,
Dixonville, Knappa, Haines, Ladd, Wingville and Powder soil
series plus three additional unnamed soils from western Oregon,
in an effort to determine their molybdenum status and to evaluate
the use of the anion exchange resin method as a means of assaying
available...
Two separate investigations were carried out. The first experiment
on subterranean clover (Mr. Barker) was conducted in the field
and greenhouse on the Steiwer soil. The second experiment on alfalfa
(DuPuits) was conducted in the greenhouse on selected eastern Oregon
soils.
The purposes of the first experiment were to determine...