https://researchdata.se/en/catalogue Search results en Identifying and quantifying crop stressors interactions in agroecosystems is necessary to guide sustainable crop management strategies. Over the last 50 years, faba bean cropping area has been declining, partly due to yield instabilities associated to uneven insect pollination and herbivory. Yet, the effect of interactions between pollinators and a key pest, the broad bean beetle Bruchus rufimanus (florivorous and seed predating herbivore) on faba bean yield has not been investigated. Using a factorial cage experiment (2 x 2 m) in the field we investigated how interactions between insect pollination by bumblebees and herbivory by the broad bean beetle, affect faba bean yield. The data on pest damage , pollinators visitation and behavior and faba bean yield components and biomass used in the paper: Riggi, L., Raderschall, C., & Lundin, O. (2022). Insect pest damage increases faba bean (Vicia faba) yield components but only in the absence of insect pollination. In Ecology and Evolution (Vol. 12). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8686 is presented. The data material on pest, pest damage, pollinators visitation and faba bean yield components used in the paper: Riggi, L., Raderschall, C., & Lundin, O. (2022). Insect pest damage increases faba bean (Vicia faba) yield components but only in the absence of insect pollination. In Ecology and Evolution (Vol. 12). https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8686 Tue, 01 Nov 2022 15:39:05 GMT https://researchdata.se/en/catalogue/dataset/2022-23-1 https://researchdata.se/en/catalogue/dataset/2022-23-1 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Laura Riggi Insect pollinators provide important crop pollination services but are declining in response to lack of diverse flower resources and exposure to pesticides. Despite increasing evidence that the benefits of insect pollination for crop production depend on other ecosystem services and crop management practices, investigations have mostly been limited to how pollination benefits are affected by insect pest control and soil fertility levels. We conducted a factorial cage experiment in 2021 in a field outside Uppsala, Sweden to test how pollination by bumble bees, manual weed removal and fungicide application interactively shape faba bean (Vicia faba) yield components, and how weed removal and fungicide application affect bumble bee foraging rate and behaviour (e.g. nectar robbing versus legitimate pollination). For this we used four treatments, cage with and without insect pollination crossed with with and without weeds. In addition, each cage was divided into two subplots, where one subplot of faba bean was sprayed with fungicide (Signum), and the other subplot was sprayed with distilled water as a control. We replicated each treatment seven times, such that the experiment consisted of 28 cages. We sampled pollinator visitation rate and behaviour during faba bean flowering, pathogen occurrence at crop maturity, weed biomass by species during peak biomass and crop yield at crop maturity. Each of these are individual data files, see additional information about data in the documentation file Metadata.txt. Wed, 20 Nov 2024 15:43:28 GMT https://researchdata.se/en/catalogue/dataset/2024-430 https://researchdata.se/en/catalogue/dataset/2024-430 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Chloë Raderschall