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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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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Widespread contamination of wildflower and bee-collected pollen with complex mixtures of neonicotinoids and fungicides commonly applied to crops [PDF]
, 2016 There is considerable and ongoing debate as to the harm inflicted on bees by exposure to agricultural pesticides. In part, the lack of consensus reflects a shortage of information on field-realistic levels of exposure. Here, we quantify concentrations of
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Analyzing the Dietary Diary of Bumble Bee [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 Bumble bees are important crop pollinators and provide important pollination services to their respective ecosystems. Their pollen diet and thus food preferences can be characterized through nucleic acid sequence analysis. We present ITS2 amplicon sequence data from pollen collected by bumble bees. The pollen was collected from six different bumble bee
Leidenfrost, Robert M. +5 more
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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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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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Effects of the neonicotinoid pesticide thiamethoxam at field-realistic levels on microcolonies of Bombus terrestris worker bumble bees [PDF]
, 2014 Copyright © 2013 Elsevier. Notice: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural ...
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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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Specificity Between Lactobacilli And Hymenopteran Hosts Is The Exception Rather Than The Rule [PDF]
, 2013 Lactobacilli (Lactobacillales: Lactobacillaceae) are well known for their roles in food fermentation, as probiotics, and in human health, but they can also be dominant members of the microbiota of some species of Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps ...
Cannone, Jamie J. +5 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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