Pollinators on the polar edge of the Ecumene: taxonomy, phylogeography, and ecology of bumble bees from Novaya Zemlya [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2019 The High Arctic bumble bee fauna is rather poorly known, while a growing body of recent molecular research indicates that several Arctic species may represent endemic lineages with restricted ranges.
Grigory S. Potapov +8 more
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The adaptive significance of sensory bias in a foraging context: floral colour preferences in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris [PDF]
, 2007 Innate sensory biases could play an important role in helping naïve animals to find food. As inexperienced bees are known to have strong innate colour biases we investigated whether bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies with stronger biases for the most
Lars Chittka +6 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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Testing the efficacy of a thermal camera as a search tool for locating wild bumble bee nests [PDF]
, 2020 This is the final version. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Roberts, BR, Osborne, JL
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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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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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Insect Conservation and DiversityLoss of natural habitat due to increases in agricultural extent raises the question of whether human‐dominated landscape types can support biodiversity, particularly for declining insect pollinators.
Laura A. Nunes +6 more
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Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.)
, 2004 Publisher version: http://www.apidologie ...
Lars Chittka +5 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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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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