In this study we investigate the potential for pollinator mediated competition or facilitation in two economically important crops: apple (Malus domestica), a mass flowering crop, and strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa Duch.) in central New York, USA. In this region apple and strawberry have a staggered but overlapping bloom period. The two crops are both members of the family Rosacea, and thus expected to have high overlap in their pollinator faunas2627. Furthermore, the community of bees visiting both apple and strawberry is dominated by early spring, ground-nesting, univoltine bees in the genus Andrena282930. The high potential for community overlap in pollinators between apple and strawberry make these two crops an ideal study system in which to understand the potential for pollinator-mediated interactions among crops.