Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Central place foragers depart from and return to a central location with enough resources for themselves, and in many cases, for the group. Honey bees and bumble bees are eusocial central place foragers.
Danny F. Minahan +2 more
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Olfactory coding in the antennal lobe of the bumble bee Bombus terrestris
Scientific Reports, 2021 Sociality is classified as one of the major transitions in evolution, with the largest number of eusocial species found in the insect order Hymenoptera, including the Apini (honey bees) and the Bombini (bumble bees).
Marcel Mertes +2 more
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Genomic Features Of A Bumble Bee Symbiont Reflect Its Host Environment [PDF]
, 2014 Here, we report the genome of one gammaproteobacterial member of the gut microbiota, for which we propose the name >Candidatus Schmidhempelia bombi,> that was inadvertently sequenced alongside the genome of its host, the bumble bee, Bombus impatiens ...
Koch, Hauke +4 more
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Reliability of the entomovector technology using Prestop-Mix and Bombus terrestris L. as a fungal disease biocontrol method in open field [PDF]
, 2016 Botrytis cinerea Pers.: Fr. is a major plant pathogen, and a new approach is needed for its control in strawberry to minimise the increasing use of synthetic fungicides.
Dreyersdorff, Gerit +7 more
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Flight of the bumble bee: Buzzes predict pollination services.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Multiple interacting factors drive recent declines in wild and managed bees, threatening their pollination services. Widespread and intensive monitoring could lead to more effective management of wild and managed bees.
Nicole E Miller-Struttmann +4 more
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Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit
Ecosphere, 2016 Surveys of bumble bees and the plants they visit, carried out in 1974 near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Colorado, were repeated in 2007, thus permitting the testing of hypotheses arising from observed climate change over the intervening 33‐
Graham H. Pyke +3 more
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An updated understanding of Texas bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) species presence and potential distributions in Texas, USA [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Texas is the second largest state in the United States of America, and the largest state in the contiguous USA at nearly 700,000 sq. km. Several Texas bumble bee species have shown evidence of declines in portions of their continental ranges, and ...
Jessica L. Beckham, Samuel Atkinson
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Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.) [PDF]
, 2004 Publisher version: http://www.apidologie ...
Chittka, L, Dornhaus, A
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Effects of habitat composition and landscape structure on worker foraging distances of five bumblebee species [PDF]
, 2016 Bumblebees (Bombus spp.) are important pollinators of both crops and wild flowers. Their contribution to this essential ecosystem service has been threatened over recent decades by changes in land use, which have led to declines in their populations.
Andrew F. G. Bourke +67 more
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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 ...
H Blaydes +4 more
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