| native bee diversity and pollen foraging specificity in cultivated highbush blueberry (ericaceae: vaccinium corymbosum) in rhode island. | we identified 41 species of native bees from a total of 1,083 specimens collected at cultivated highbush blueberry plantings throughout rhode island in 2014 and 2015. andrena spp., bombus spp., and xylocopa virginica (l.) were collected most often. bombus griseocollis (degeer), b. impatiens cresson, b. bimaculatus cresson, b. perplexus cresson, and andrena vicina smith collected the largest mean numbers of blueberry pollen tetrads. the largest mean percent blueberry pollen loads were carried by ... | 2016 | 28028090 |