Research
At the heart of our mission.
Bleuets NB Blueberries has always been engaged in research. This is one of BNBB pillars of action.
Results have been noticeable: better control of nuisance, improvement of techniques of harvesting and as a result; better fruit quality and impressive increase of production.
How do we support research?
BNBB’s support can take different forms:
- Act as applicant for funding
- Letter of support
- Act as applicant for funding
- Guidance in search of other funding
- Grant direct financial support
- Administrative support
- Facilitate access and participation of producers in the conduct of a research project
- Access to BNBB communication platforms
Research Committee
The Research Committee is made up of five (5) NB wild blueberry producers:
Zack Fisher
Lane Stewart
Gary Friars
Alarie Lebreton
Murray Tweedie
Research Reports
NOTE: Documents marked as ‘Report $$’ are external and require payment to the hosting website to view.
DISEASES
FERTILIZING
PEST CONTROL
WEED CONTROL
REPORT: New techniques for an ecological control of weedy species in boreal blueberry fields
REPORT: Sustainable Weed Management for the Wild Blueberry Industry
REPORT: Weed Seed Predation by Carabid Beetles for Biological Control in Wild Blueberry Fields
DESCRIPTION: Innovative Weed Control Methods to Improve the Competitiveness of Wild Blueberry Production
REPORT: Enhancing Weed Management in New Brunswick Lowbush Blueberry Production
DESCRIPTION: Evaluating current and innovative weed management tools for New Brunswick lowbush blueberry production
ABSTRACT: Evaluation of Innovative Herbicides Applied in the Spring of the Sprout Year in Wild Blueberries
ABSTRACT: Evaluation of Spring Applied, Sprout-year Herbicides for Sheep Sorrel Control in Wild Blueberries
ABSTRACT: Evaluation of Fall Herbicide Applications after Pruning for Sheep Sorrel Control in Wild Blueberries
OTHER
REPORT: Tracking Global Blueberry Market Changes
DESCRIPTION: Improving Harvesting of Wild Blueberry
DESCRIPTION: Technological innovation of a burner used in wild blueberry cultivation (Phase III)
DESCRIPTION: Black Currant Harvester
DESCRIPTION: Grazer WB
DESCRIPTION: Windmill: A Way to Extend the Growing Season
POLLINATION
REPORT: Pollination Report 2019
REPORT: Management of Bumblebees
REPORT: Humming along or buzzing off? The elusive consquences of plant-pollinator mismatches
REPORT: Flies and Flowers II: Floral Attractants and Rewards
REPORT: A global meta-analytic contrast of cushion-plant effects on plants and on arthropods
REPORT $$: Pollen Aggregation in Relation to Pollination Vector
REPORT $$: Annotated catalogue of the bees described by Léon Provancher (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)
REPORT $$: Development of a Pollination Service Measurement (PSM) method using potted plant phytometry
REPORT $$: Problem solving by worker bumblebees Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)
REPORT $$: The Relationship between Morphological and Behavioral Mimicry in Hover Flies (Diptera: Syrphidae)
REPORT: Potential nocturnal insect pollinators of lowbush blueberry
REPORT: Key to the Genera of Nearctic Syrphidae
REPORT: Genomic islands of divergence are not affected by geography of speciation in sunflowers
REPORT: Revision of Nearctic Dasysyrphus Enderlein (Diptera: Syrphidae)
REPORT: Secondary Evolution of a Self-Incompatibility Locus in the Brassicaceae Genus Leavenworthia
REPORT: A systematic review of arthropod community diversity in association with invasive plants
REPORT $$: The potential of cleptoparasitic bees as indicator taxa for assessing bee communities
REPORT $$: Do plant traits influence a species’ response to habitat disturbance? A meta-analysis
REPORT $$: Honey bees, neonicotinoids and bee incident reports: the Canadian situation
REPORT $$: Predicting the sensitivity of butterfly phenology to temperature over the past century
REPORT $$: Phylogeny and taxonomic revision of all genera of C onopidae (D iptera) based on morphological data
REPORT: Bees of the Genus Dufourea Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Rophitinae) of Canada
REPORT: Berry unexpected: Nocturnal pollination of lowbush blueberry
REPORT: Wallengrenia Egeremet (Hesperiidae): A New Population for Western Canada
REPORT: Cluster Flies (Calliphoridae: Polleniinae: Pollenia) of North America
REPORT: From birds to bees: applying video observation techniques to invertebrate pollinators
REPORT: Insect pollination: commodity values, trade and policy considerations using coffee as an example
REPORT $$: Review of New World Sericomyia (Diptera: Syrphidae), including description of a new species
REPORT $$: Ultraviolet reflectance mediates pollinator visitation in Mimulus guttatus
REPORT $$: Sex-ratio variation and the function of staminodes in Aralia nudicaulis
REPORT $$: The use of pollination networks in conservation
REPORT $$: Responses of insect pollinators and understory plants to silviculture in northern hardwood forests
REPORT $$: A comparative analysis of the evolution of imperfect mimicry
REPORT $$: Characteristics of Honey Bee and Non-Apis Bee (Hymenoptera) Farmsin Canada
REPORT $$: Effect of bee-vectored Beauveria bassiana on greenhouse beneficials under greenhouse cage conditions
REPORT $$: Systemic range shift lags among a pollinator species assemblage following rapid climate change
REPORT $$: Assessing declines of North American bumble bees (Bombus spp.) using museum specimens
REPORT: A Matrix Key to Families, Subfamilies, and Tribes of Lepidoptera of Canada
REPORT: Pollination Ecology in the 21st Century: Key Questions for Future Research
REPORT: Demographic Signatures Accompanying the Evolution of
Selfing in Leavenworthia alabamica
REPORT $$: Bee Diversity in Naturalizing Patches of Carolinian Grasslands in Southern Ontario, Canada
REPORT: A Matrix Key to Families, Subfamilies, and Tribes of Lepidoptera of Canada
REPORT: Pollination Ecology in the 21st Century: Key Questions for Future Research
REPORT: Demographic Signatures Accompanying the Evolution of
Selfing in Leavenworthia alabamica
REPORT $$: Bee Diversity in Naturalizing Patches of Carolinian Grasslands in Southern Ontario, Canada