Endosymbionts that threaten commercially raised and wild bumble bees (Bombus spp.)
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are important pollinators for both wild and agriculturally managed plants. We give an overview of what is known about the diverse community of internal potentially deleterious bumble bee symbionts, including viruses, bacteria ...
Laura Figueroa +14 more
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Using the combined gene approach and multiple analytical methods to improve the phylogeny and classification of Bombus (Hymenoptera, Apidae) in China [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Bumble bees are vital to our agro-ecological system, with approximately 250 species reported around the world in the single genus Bombus. However, the health of bumble bees is threatened by multiple factors: habitat loss, climate change, pesticide use ...
Liu-Hao Wang +5 more
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Big city Bombus: using natural history and land-use history to find significant environmental drivers in bumble-bee declines in urban development [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Native bee populations are critical sources of pollination. Unfortunately, native bees are declining in abundance and diversity. Much of this decline comes from human land-use change.
Paul Glaum +4 more
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 The commercial production and subsequent movement of bumble bees for pollination of agricultural field and greenhouse crops is a growing industry in North America and globally.
James Strange +13 more
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Sensitivity of commercial pumpkin yield to potential decline among different groups of pollinating bees [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 The yield of animal-pollinated crops is threatened by bee declines, but its precise sensitivity is poorly known. We therefore determined the yield dependence of Hokkaido pumpkin in Germany on insect pollination by quantifying: (i) the relationship ...
Sonja C. Pfister +4 more
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Male-biased night foraging by bumblebees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus spp.) in Taiwan [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2023 Known nocturnal behaviors of bees in the superfamily Apoidea, including the genus Bombus, were almost exclusively of females. Here we report observations of active free-ranging male Bombus at night in the plant nursery of the Fushan Research Center ...
Yun-Chen Hsieh +5 more
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2021 Growing evidence supports that many bee populations are declining, with potentially serious consequences for pollination services. Mechanistic models that predict bee abundances from drivers like floral resource availability can be a powerful way to ...
Diane M Thomson
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The abundance and pollen foraging behaviour of bumble bees in relation to population size of whortleberry (Vaccinium uliginosum). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Habitat fragmentation can have severe effects on plant pollinator interactions, for example changing the foraging behaviour of pollinators. To date, the impact of plant population size on pollen collection by pollinators has not yet been investigated ...
Carolin Mayer +4 more
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Pollination of Sedirea japonica (Orchidaceae) by Bombus diversus diversus (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
European Journal of Entomology, 2013 There are no records of the pollinators of many orchids even though the Orchidaceae are often cited as the example of an intimate relationship between plants and their pollinators.
Kenji SUETSUGU, Koji TANAKA
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Long-term changes in the composition and distribution of the Hungarian bumble bee fauna (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus) [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2023 One of the most important pollinator taxa is Bombus (Hymenoptera, Apidae), the genus of bumble bees, since they are important, often specialized, pollinators of many plants.
Dóra Arnóczkyné Jakab +6 more
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