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Methylation and worker reproduction in the bumble-bee (Bombus terrestris) [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2014
Insects are at the dawn of an epigenetics era. Numerous social insect species have been found to possess a functioning methylation system, previously not thought to exist in insects. Methylation, an epigenetic tag, may be vital for the sociality and division of labour for which social insects are renowned.
Amarasinghe, Harindra E., Clayton, Crisenthiya I., Mallon, Eamonn B.   +2 more
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Spatial and temporal patterns of genetic diversity in Bombus terrestris populations of the Iberian Peninsula and their conservation implications

Scientific Reports, 2021
The bumblebee Bombus terrestris is used worldwide for crop pollination. Despite its positive impact on crop yield, it has become a widespread threat to biodiversity due to its interactions with local bumblebee populations.
Diego Cejas, Pilar De la Rúa, Concepción Ornosa, Denis Michez, Irene Muñoz   +4 more
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Dominance of Fructose-Associated Fructobacillus in the Gut Microbiome of Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) Inhabiting Natural Forest Meadows

Insects, 2022
Bumblebees are key pollinators in agricultural landscapes. However, little is known about how gut microbial communities respond to anthropogenic changes. We used commercially produced colonies of buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) placed in three
Ronalds Krams, Dita Gudra, Sergejs Popovs, Jonathan Willow, Tatjana Krama, Maris Munkevics, Kaspars Megnis, Priit Jõers, Davids Fridmanis, Jorge Contreras Garduño, Indrikis A. Krams   +10 more
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Potential Correlation Between Bombus lantschouensis Thoracic Morphology and Flight Behavior

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Potential correlation between Bombus lantschouensis thoracic morphology and flight behavior. ABSTRACT Remarkably little modern work has investigated the thoracic structures of insects and their relationship to flight locomotion. Most studies focus exclusively on either morphology or flight kinematics.
Wenjie Li, Sipei Liu, Le Zong, Zhengzhong Huang, Lei Jiang, Xiaokun Liu, Pingping Yang, Yitian Zhang, Zhong Du, Weili Fan, Zhuanghui Qin, Xieshuang Wang, Xinying Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Haodong Yin, Jiandong An, Chaodong Zhu, Michael C. Orr, Jiangning Wang, Siqin Ge   +19 more
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Bombus terrestris subsp. terrestris Linnaeus 1758

, 2017
Published as part of Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix & Rúa, Pilar De La, 2017, Updated list of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from the Spanish Pyrenees with notes on their decline and conservation status, pp.
Ornosa, Concepción, Torres, Félix, Rúa, Pilar De La   +2 more
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Size variation and foraging rate in bumblebees ( Bombus terrestris ) [PDF]

Insectes Sociaux, 2002
Summary. Size polymorphism is an important life history trait in bumblebees with strong impact on individual behavior and colony organization. Within a colony larger workers tend to serve as foragers, while smaller workers fulfill inhive tasks. It is often assumed that size-dependent division of labor relates to differences in task performance. In this
Spaethe, Johannes, Weidenmüller, Anja
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Comparing time‐lapse photography and traditional human observation in collecting crop pollinator visitation data Ajastetun valokuvauksen ja perinteisen suoran havainnoinnin vertailu kerättäessä tietoa pölyttäjien kukkakäynneistä viljelykasveilla

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Time‐lapse photography with commercially available trail cameras provides a competitive alternative to direct human observations for documenting pollinator flower visits, but its performance varies between crops. In apple, the cameras recorded more diverse pollinator assemblages than the human observer due to larger temporal coverage of the camera ...
Marjaana Toivonen, Paula Humberg
wiley   +1 more source

Head-thorax orientation of Bombus terrestris during learning flights

, 2020
Doussot C, Odenthal L, Meyer S, Egelhaaf M, Bertrand O. Head-thorax orientation of Bombus terrestris during learning flights. Bielefeld University; 2020.Recordings of the head and thorax orientation during the learning flights of bumblebees, Bombus ...
Bertrand, Olivier ; https://orcid.org/, Egelhaaf, Martin ; https://orcid.org/, Odenthal, Luise, Meyer, Stefan, Doussot, Charlotte ; https://orcid.org/   +4 more
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The behavioural responses of bumblebees <i>Bombus terrestris</i> to simulated rain. [PDF]

R Soc Open Sci
Bumblebee activity typically decreases during rainfall, putting them under the threat of the increased frequency of precipitation due to climate change. A novel rain machine was used within a flight arena to observe the behavioural responses of bumblebees ( Bombus terrestris ) to simulated ...
Reeves LA, Jarvis EM, Lawson DA, Rands SA.   +3 more
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Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban bees of the world

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Bees play a pivotal role in terrestrial environments. Urbanization can affect these organisms and the ecosystem services they provide. However, knowledge of the global diversity of urban bees is limited. Thus, we summarized data on urban bee species identities and occurrences; compared distributions of all bees with those found in urban ...
João C. F. Cardoso, Pietro K. Maruyama, Ingrid N. Gomes, Lorena B. Valadão‐Mendes, Victor H. D. Silva, Larissa Lorraine, Jordana O. Borges, Rogério V. Gonçalves, Léo C. Rocha‐Filho, Renata Trevizan, Yasmine Antonini   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source