Pollination information references
Listed in alphabetical order of the topic
The list below focuses on tropical and Asian pollination information. There are also references on agricultural crops and other topics which have been listed to help the reader get a historical and current overview. Where possible an internet link has been included so that the reader can just click to go directly to the source.
Amazing bees – general information
http://www.amazingbees.com.au/honeybees.html
Apis cerana – general background
http://beekeeping.wikia.com/wiki/Apis_cerana
Apis mellifera and Apis cerana in Vietnam – 1992 study
http://www.planbee.org.uk/uploads/BfDJ32ceranamelliferaVietnam044.pdf
Are Bees dying out? – 2014 article
http://www.praying-nature.com/site_pages.php?section=Ecology+Matters!&category_ref=52
The Asian honey bee (Apis cerana) and its strains – 2013 study
http://asianhoneybee.net.au/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/AHB-behaviour-lit-review-FINAL2013.pdf
Asian honeybees: biology conservation and human interactions
By Oldroyd and Wongsiri
Pub: Harvard University Press 2006, 292 pages
Asian Honeybee Potential Environmental Impacts – in Australia, June 2013
http://www.environment.gov.au/system/files/resources/16422f90-1acf-4223-a347-740f48401ced/files/asian-bees.pdf
Asiatic Honeybee Apis cerana: Biodiversity Conservation and Agricultural Production
by Abrol, Dharam P.
Pub: Springer August 2013, 1019 pages
http://www.springer.com/life+sciences/entomology/book/978-94-007-6927-4
BeeAware – an Australian government information website
http://beeaware.org.au/
Bee Industry Roadmap for the Philippines
http://marinduqueland.com/products/downloads/BEEINDUSTRYROADMAP.pdf
http://www.bar.gov.ph/chronicle-home/archives-list/57-november-2011/4408-nov2011-bar-spearheads-r-d-roadmap-writeshop-for-beekeeping-r-d
Bee pollination and fruit set of Coffea arabica and C. canephora
http://www.amjbot.org/content/90/1/153.full
Bee pollination benefits for mango
Dept of Food and Agriculture, Western Australia
http://archive.agric.wa.gov.au/PC_91814.html?s=1001
Beekeeping for Honey Production in Sri Lanka: management of Asiatic hive honeybee Apis cerana in its natural tropical monsoonal environment
Punchihewa RWK (1994) Sri Lanka Dept of Agriculture, Peradeniya Sri Lanka & Canadian International Development Agency, Quebec, Canada. 232 pages
Beekeeping with oriental honeybees (Apis cerana)
http://www.fao.org/docrep/x0083e/X0083E05.htm
Bees and their roles in forest livelihoods
Nicola Bradbear, Food and Agriculture Organisation 2009, 242 pages
http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0842e/i0842e00.HTM
Best management practices in Agriculture for sustainable use and conservation of pollinators
Sao Paulo University, Brazil – study on stingless bees
http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/uploads/6-010.pdf
All Chinese honey is ordered off shelves (UK)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-101494/All-Chinese-honey-ordered-shelves.html
Citrus Trees that Require Cross-Pollination for Fruit Production
http://lee.ifas.ufl.edu/Hort/GardenPubsAZ/CitrusTree_Pollenizer_modified_Mongi.pdf
Cocao tree information
http://www.xocoatl.org/tree.htm
Coconut – farm and forestry production and marketing profile
http://agroforestry.net/images/pdfs/Coconut_specialty_crop.pdf
Coconut project in Australian schools
http://www.uq.edu.au/_School_Science_Lessons/CoconProj.html#CoconutProjectheading
Coffee pollination: Honeybees boost coffee yields
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2403-honeybees-boost-coffee-yields.html
Conservation of Asian honey bees
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/89/20/24/PDF/hal-00892024.pdf
Declining Agri Yield Worrisome – Philfoodex
https://ph.news.yahoo.com/declining-agri-yield-worrisome-philfoodex-160737233.html
Do Tangerine Trees Need Cross-Pollination?
http://www.ehow.co.uk/info_8009962_do-tangerine-trees-need-crosspollination.html
Economic Potential Unlocked in Coconut
http://winner-tips.org/magazines/economic-potential-unlocked-in-coconut/
The Economic Valuation of Pollinators for Southeast
Asia: Philippines and Vietnam
https://www.cbd.int/cepa/cepafair/2012/cepa-fair-2012-gbpihed-pollinators2.pdf
Economics of bee pollination in the Philippines
Antonio D. Baconawa
http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/pollination_philippines.htm
Farmer sets model with integrated farming – in Kerala, Southern India with Apis cerana
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/farmer-sets-model-with-integrated-farming/article2789239.ece
Global action on pollination services for sustainable agriculture
Food and Agriculture Organisation
http://www.internationalpollinatorsinitiative.org/
Global Pollination Project leaflet by the Food & Agriculture Organisation
http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2763e/i2763e18.pdf
A Guide to Beekeeping in the Philippines
Antonio D. Baconawa
http://www.apiservices.com/articles/us/beekeeping_philippines.htm
High Value Crops Development Program (RA 7900)
Department of Agriculture in Philippines
http://hvcdp.da.gov.ph/
The Honey You Should Never Buy – It May Be Tainted with Lead and Antibiotics
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/01/28/bees-death-destroy-food-supply.aspx
Honeybees – nature’s pollinators
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/04/15/fea07.asp
Honey Hunting and Beekeeping
Food and Agriculture Organisation
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0842e/i0842e06.pdf
Honey Hunting information
http://www.beesfordevelopment.org/resources-for-beekeepers/informationportal/category/39-honey-hunting
Honey Hunters of Cambodia (Apis dorsata)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEM_zca0PHI
Honey Hunters of Philippines (Apis dorsata)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUCOwoMHA5U
International Coffee Organization
http://www.ico.org/
International Cotton Advisory Committee
https://www.icac.org/
https://www.icac.org/Meetings/Plenary/60vicfalls/documents/statements/statement-philippines.pdf
Japanese beekeeping with Apis cerana
http://warre.biobees.com/japan.htm
List of crop plants pollinated by bees
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crop_plants_pollinated_by_bees
Management of Philippine bees – stingless bees and honey bees
UPLB Bee Program, University of the Philippines at Los Baños
http://beesfordevelopment.org/shop/product_info.php/products_id/466
Messages from Bees – A Japanese Documentary (Neonicotinoid pesticide problems)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaqPNmk1kZY
Migrating Giant Honey Bees (Apis dorsata)
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0044976
More than Honey – film about pressures on Apis mellifera 2013
http://www.morethanhoney.co.uk/
Neonicotinoid Pesticides and Honey Bees
Washington State University Extension Fact Sheet
http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/FS122E/FS122E.pdf
Passionfruit not producing fruit
http://www.readersdigest.com.au/passionfruit-not-producing-fruit
Pesticide Action Network includes the 2 websites…
Save the honey bees
http://www.savehoneybees.info/
Disrupting Food
http://www.disruptingfood.info/en/
Philippine beekeeping information – some example links
http://www.philippinebeekeeping.com/
http://www.pinoybeekeepersforum.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BeenetPhilippines
http://philippinetambayan.com/2008/03/09/honey-bee-production-bee-keeping/
https://sites.google.com/site/philippinebeekeeping/visit-january-2010
http://marinduqueland.com/vision/vision.html
http://thegardenerstales.com/the-tale-of-bees-and-coconuts-forging-an-alliance/
Philippine Coconut Authority – Research and Development Branch
http://www.pca.da.gov.ph/coconutrde/
Philippine Palm Oil Development Council
http://ppdci.org/
Philippines Scariest – Tamboboan (Hornets)
http://www.bubblews.com/news/1957386-philippines-scariest-tamboboan-hornets
Philippines Statistics Authority
http://countrystat.bas.gov.ph/
The Plight of the Honeybee
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130510-honeybee-bee-science-european-union-pesticides-colony-collapse-epa-science/
Pollination and yield responses of cowpea
http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajb/article/viewFile/60464/48693
‘Pollination crisis’ hitting India’s vegetable farmers
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11418033
Pollination: Crop Pollination Requirements
http://www.ent.uga.edu/bees/pollination/crop-pollination.html
Pollination of Apis mellifera and Trigona biroi on the Productivity of Solanaceous Crops (Philippines)
Jose T. Travero et al
http://iserd.net/ijerd32/32099.pdf
Pollination of cultivated plants in the tropics
Edited by David W. Roubik
Food and Agriculture Organization: Bulletin 118 Pub: FAO 1995 194 pages
http://www.openisbn.com/free_ebooks/read_88712_Pollination_Of_Cultivated_Plants_In_The_Tropics
Pollination Requirements of Some Tropical Crops
http://rfcarchives.org.au/Next/CaringForTrees/Pollination1-88.htm
Pollinator Conservation Action Plan for Sri Lanka, 2014
http://www.environmentmin.gov.lk/web/images/pdf/actionplanbd.pdf
PROGRESS REPORT OF FAO ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLLINATORS INITIATIVE
https://www.cbd.int/doc/meetings/cop/cop-11/information/cop-11-inf-29-en.pdf
Research Discovers Oldest Bee, Evolutionary Link
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061025184944.htm
Retreating Indigenous Bee Populations (Apis Cerana) and Livelihoods of Himalayan Farmers
http://www.icimod.org/?q=1509
Scientists discover what’s killing the bees and it’s worse than you thought (USA)
http://qz.com/107970/scientists-discover-whats-killing-the-bees-and-its-worse-than-you-thought
South African Mango Growers Association
http://www.mango.co.za/
Squash Pollinators of the Americas Survey
http://www.ars.usda.gov/Research/docs.htm?docid=16595
Squash (hybrid) seed production: Providing a bright future for Sto. Niño farmers
http://www.bar.gov.ph/digest-home/digest-archives/123-2011-1st-quarter/428-hybrid-squash-seed-production-providing-a-bright-future-for-sto-nino-farmers
Sydney scientists work on Plan Bee in Southeast Asia
http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=2&newsstoryid=13246
Star fruit information
http://www.itfnet.org/gfruit/Templates%20English/carambola.biology.htm
Stingless: The bees of the future – an article about stingless bees in the Philippines
http://www.bar.gov.ph/digest-home/4741-janmar2013-stingless-bees
The value of bees for crop pollination
Food and Agriculture Organisation
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/012/i0842e/i0842e09.pdf
Twenty-five years of progress in understanding pollination mechanisms in palms
http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/08/09/aob.mcr192.full
UK government bee information website
https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/beebase/
Your Honey Probably Isn’t ‘Honey,’ And The FDA’s About To Fix That (USA)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/08/honey-fda_n_5111907.html
Vanishing of the Bees – film about colony collapse disorder 2009
http://www.vanishingbees.com/
Why beekeeping is for keeps – in the Philippines
http://www.bar.gov.ph/digest-home/digest-archives/123-2011-1st-quarter/429-why-beekeeping-is-for-keeps
World Market for Honey
http://www.fintrac.com/cpanelx_pu/Ethiopia%20CIAFS/12_06_4949_CIAFS%20_1%20Honey%20Final%20Oct%2011.pdf
10 crops that would disappear without bees (just in temperate countries)
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/07/19/crops-that-would-disappear-without-bees/
19 Crops That Would Disappear Without Bees
http://www.thedailymeal.com/19-crops-would-disappear-without-bees
30 hornets vs. 30,000 bees
Hornets are very different insects to honeybees !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDSf3Kshq1M