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Insect pollination of sugar‐beet (Beta vulgaris) seed crops

J. B. Free, I. H. Williams, P. C. Longden, Mike Johnson

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SUMMARY The flowers of sugar‐beet crops grown to produce hybrid seed were visited by many species of insects which often carried much sugar‐beet pollen on their bodies and could have contributed to pollination.

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SUMMARY The flowers of sugar‐beet crops grown to produce hybrid seed were visited by many species of insects which often carried much sugar‐beet pollen on their bodies and could have contributed to pollination.

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SUMMARY The flowers of sugar‐beet crops grown to produce hybrid seed were visited by many species of insects which often carried much sugar‐beet pollen on their bodies and could have contributed to pollination.

Key concepts: Biology, Pollination, Sugar beet, BETA (programming language), Insect, Agronomy, Sugar, Botany

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