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Positive affective contagion in bumble bees
ScienceAffective contagion, a core component of empathy, has been widely characterized in social vertebrates but its existence in any invertebrate is unknown. Using a cognitive bias paradigm we demonstrate positive affective contagion in bumble bees. After being trained on colored flowers with different reinforcements, bees that interacted with a conspecific ...
José E. Romero-González +5 more
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Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation
Environmental Entomology, 2022Jacquelyn L Fitzgerald +2 more
exaly
2009
In social insects, severe brood care costs have favoured the evolution of cheaters that exploit workers services of conspecifics or heterospecifics. In Bumblebees, a lot of species use hosts facultatively as an alternative to care for their own brood, while Psithyrus species have lost their worker caste and are completely dependant on hosts to produce ...
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In social insects, severe brood care costs have favoured the evolution of cheaters that exploit workers services of conspecifics or heterospecifics. In Bumblebees, a lot of species use hosts facultatively as an alternative to care for their own brood, while Psithyrus species have lost their worker caste and are completely dependant on hosts to produce ...
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The Importance of Males to Bumble Bee (Bombus Species) Nest Development and Colony Viability
Insects, 2020Allison A Camp, David M Lehmann
exaly
Local habitat type influences bumble bee pathogen loads and bee species distributions
Environmental Entomology, 2023Elena M Gratton +2 more
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Western bumble bee: declines in the continental United States and range‐wide information gaps
Ecosphere, 2020William M Janousek +2 more
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