This vegetation data comes from surveys conducted in November 2015 on savanna plots in Burkina Faso. Plots are distributed in three areas: the municipality of Dano, the regional reserve of Bontioli, and the national reserve of Nazinga. A total of 28 plots were surveyed.

Table of the 10 most abundant bee species in fields of a) conventional cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) and b) sesame (Sesamum indicum) and their abundances in savanna sites in all three study areas. Data were collected with pantraps for a period of 21 months in 2014 and 2015 (bee sampling in the crop fields only during two rainy seasons from June to October when crops were in bloom) in a total of 12 savanna sites, 11 cotton fields, 11 sesame fields of ca. 1ha each in the south of Burkina Faso, West-Africa.