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Solar park management and design to boost bumble bee populations
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Solar photovoltaics is projected to become the dominant renewable, with much capacity being installed as ground-mounted solar parks. Land use change for solar can affect ecosystems across spatial scales and solar parks offer a unique opportunity for ...
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Bumble bees create a buzz [PDF]
Science, 2017 Conservation Foraging bees create characteristic vibrations at frequencies of 120 to 400 Hz. Miller-Struttmann et al. set out to investigate whether the vibrations created by bumble bees can be used to estimate pollination success. They show that physical attributes such as body size and tongue length, which influence pollination success, are ...
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Bumble bees (Bombus spp) along a gradient of increasing urbanization. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 BACKGROUND: Bumble bees and other wild bees are important pollinators of wild flowers and several cultivated crop plants, and have declined in diversity and abundance during the last decades.
Karin Ahrné +2 more
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Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2016 Recent research has demonstrated colony-level sublethal effects of imidacloprid on bumble bees, affecting foraging and food consumption, and thus colony growth and reproduction, at lower pesticide concentrations than for honey bee colonies.
Kimberly Stoner
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The Importance of Males to Bumble Bee (Bombus Species) Nest Development and Colony Viability
Insects, 2020 Bumble bee population declines over the last decade have stimulated strong interest in determining causative factors and necessary conservation measures.
Joseph E. Belsky +2 more
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Evaluation of the FERA study on bumble bees and consideration of its potential impact on the EFSA conclusions on neonicotinoids [PDF]
EFSA Journal, 2013 The European Food Safety Authority was requested to clarify whether the new publication on the effects of neonicotinoid seed treatments on bumble bee colonies under field conditions (March, 2013; Thompson et al.) has an impact on the EFSA Conclusions on ...
European Food Safety Authority
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Insects, 2022 During recent decades, bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) have continuously expanded their range in the Mediterranean climate regions of Israel. To assess their potential effects on local bee communities, we monitored their diurnal and seasonal activity ...
Noam Bar-Shai +3 more
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Honey bees exhibit greater patch fidelity than bumble bees when foraging in a common environment
Ecosphere, 2023 Animals commonly exhibit a tendency to return to previously visited locations. Such tendency is manifested at different scales, for example, fidelity to a site or fidelity to a specific patch within a site.
Fabiana P. Fragoso, Johanne Brunet
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Abnormal Proventriculus in Bumble Bee Males
Diversity, 2022 Females social insects are widely investigated, while males are often neglected. Previous work on the morphology of the bumble bee male alimentary tract has described the presence of swollen proventriculi as a character with taxonomic value.
Mario X. Ruiz-González
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini +13 more
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