JHR 35: 59–69Factors (2013) influencing the foraging activity of the allodapine beeBraunsapis puangensis... 59 doi: 10.3897/JHR.35.6006 SHORT COMMUNICATION www.pensoft.net/journals/jhr Factors influencing the foraging activity of the allodapine bee Braunsapis puangensis on creeping daisy (Sphagneticola trilobata) in Fiji Abhineshwar V. Prasad1, Simon Hodge1,2 1 Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment, The University of the South Pacific, Laucala Bay, Suva, Fiji Islands 2 Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand Corresponding author: Simon Hodge (
[email protected]) Academic editor: Jack Neff | Received 25 July 2013 | Accepted 30 July 2013 | Published 25 October 2013 Citation: Prasad AV, Hodge S (2013) Factors influencing the foraging activity of the allodapine bee Braunsapis puangensis on creeping daisy (Sphagneticola trilobata) in Fiji. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 35: 56–69. doi: 10.3897/ JHR.35.6006 Keywords Bees, invasive plants, pollinators, South Pacific Introduction There is growing concern regarding the global decline of honey bee populations and the implications of this demise for the pollination of entomophilous crops (Potts et al. 2010, Groom and Schwarz 2011; Cornman et al. 2012). In the future we may rely on other insect species to perform crop pollination services, including naturally-occurring native or introduced species of bees (e.g. Rader et al. 2009). Pollination success of generalist plants tends to be positively related to pollinator diversity, so any habitat modifications that increase the number of pollinating species present at a site would Copyright A.V. Prasad, S. Hodge. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (CC-BY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.