Introduction and Background

Table of Contents

Introduction

1  Title slide
2  Pollination Ecology?

Background

3  Change in alfalfa seed industry after WWII
4  Flowers
5  Change in alfalfa seed industry after WWII
6  Alfalfa Seed Industry: Current Status
7  Alfalfa leafcutting bee,Megachile rotundata
8  M. rotundata cuts leaf 
9  Cell with egg
10  Shelter for bee nests
11  Loose cell
12  X-ray machine
13 Cocoon Testing Lab Results
14  Traditional problem 1
15  Traditional problem 2
16  Tradeoffs, not solutions
17  Huge bee populations
18  Are all those bees necessary?

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