A Comparison of Pollination Efficiency Between Wild Bumble Bees and Introduced Honey Bees on Polygonatum cyrtonema [PDF]
BiologyTo clarify the pollination contributions of introduced honey bees and native wild bees, we compared their pollination efficiency on a perennial herb, Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua.
Ju Tang +5 more
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Do Buzz‐Pollinating Bumble Bees Facilitate Honey Bee Pollination in Southern Highbush Blueberry Through Increasing Pollen Release? [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionFacilitation between species in diverse communities can enhance ecosystem services like pollination, a crucial service for southern highbush blueberry (SHB).
John J. Ternest +2 more
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Parasites, parasitoids, and hive products that are potentially deleterious to wild and commercially raised bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in North America [PDF]
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Bumble bees are important pollinators for a great diversity of wild and cultivated plants, and in many parts of the world certain species have been found to be in decline, gone locally extinct, or even globally extinct.
Elaine Evans +14 more
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Phylogeography and ecology of bumble bees on Kolguev Island, a remote European Arctic landmass [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2022 The bumble bee fauna of the Russian Arctic is rather poorly known. Kolguev Island, a remote insular territory in the Barents Sea, is one of the deficiently studied areas.
Grigory S. Potapov +11 more
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Endosymbionts that threaten commercially raised and wild bumble bees (Bombus spp.) [PDF]
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Bumble bees (Bombus spp.) are important pollinators for both wild and agriculturally managed plants. We give an overview of what is known about the diverse community of internal potentially deleterious bumble bee symbionts, including viruses, bacteria ...
Laura Figueroa +14 more
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The diversity, evolution, and development of setal morphologies in bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus spp.) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Bumble bees are characterized by their thick setal pile that imparts aposematic color patterns often used for species-level identification. Like all bees, the single-celled setae of bumble bees are branched, an innovation thought important for pollen ...
Heather M. Hines +5 more
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Honey bees and bumble bees occupying the same landscape have distinct gut microbiomes and amplicon sequence variant-level responses to infections [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 The gut microbiome of bees is vital for the health of their hosts. Given the ecosystem functions performed by bees, and the declines faced by many species, it is important to improve our understanding of the amount of natural variation in the gut ...
Navolle Amiri +2 more
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No impact of cyantraniliprole on the hibernation success of bumble bees (Bombus terrestris audax) in a soil‐mediated laboratory exposure study [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionIncreasing evidence shows that wild bees, including bumble bees, are in decline due to a range of stressors, including pesticides. Our knowledge of pesticide impacts has consequently grown to enable the design of increasingly realistic risk assessment ...
Alberto Linguadoca +4 more
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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.
Robert M. Leidenfrost +5 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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