Figure 5
Effect of the offering of mimic-scented food on fruit yield and on plantation yield. (A,B) Yield was calculated as the counts of fruits per trees in a pair of apple plots and in a pair of pear plots, where 30 trees were surveyed in each. (A) Colonies that pollinate each apple plot were fed apple mimic-scented sucrose solution (SS + AM) or unscented sucrose solution (SS). (B) Colonies that pollinate each pear plot were fed pear mimic-scented sucrose solution (SS + PM) or unscented sucrose solution (SS). (C,D). Yield was obtained either from 11 apple plots (varieties: Hi Early, Granny Smith and Chañar 28) that settle 130 colonies in total that had been fed apple mimic-scented sucrose solution (SS + AM) and from 11 apple plots (varieties: Hi Early, Granny Smith and Chañar 28) with 139 colonies that had been fed unscented sucrose solution (SS). Yields are presented for all apple varieties together (C) or separately (D) Asterisks indicate significant differences between the treatments (*, p < 0.05; **, p < 0.01; #, p = 0.06). Circles indicate the mean values and bars show the 95% confidence intervals. Package ‘ml’, version60. Package ‘emmeans’, version 1.8.0. https://github.com/rvlenth/emmeans.
