The 2005 ESA Annual Meeting and Exhibition
December 15-18, 2005
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

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Friday, December 16, 2005
D0156

Effects of prescribed fire and fire surrogates on insect pollinators of North Carolina and Alabama

Joshua W. Campbell, josh223@mindspring.com, USDA Forest Service/University of Georgia, 320 Green St, Athens, GA, Jim Hanula, jhanula@fs.fed.us, USDA Forest Service, 320 Green St, Athens, GA, and Thomas A. Waldrop, twaldrop@fs.fed.us, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, 239 Lehotsky Hall, Clemson, SC.

Pollination by insects is a key process that occurs within forest communities. Due to the importance of pollination, land management practices in forested areas should try to minimize the disruption of pollinating systems. Prescribed burns, thinnings, and herbicide use are commonly used management practices on forested land. Insect pollinators (Hymenopterans, Dipterans, Coleopterans, and Lepidopterans) were collected during 2003 and 2004 on burned, thinned, herbicide treated, and combinations of these treatments on plots located in North Carolina and Alabama. Here we present the insect pollinator abundance and diversity data collected from these two sites. Hymenopterans were the most abundant type of insect pollinator collected from the majority of the treatments. Overall thinned and burned plots contained more insect pollinators compared to other treatments.


Species 1: Lepidoptera Papilionidae Papilio glaucus (tiger swallowtail)
Keywords: Pollinator, Habitat modification

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