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Immune defence in bumble-bee offspring

Nature, 2001
Immune-challenged vertebrate females transfer specific antibodies to their offspring, but this gratuitous immunity cannot operate in invertebrates. Here we show that constitutive immune defence is enhanced in sexual offspring of the bumble-bee Bombus terrestris L. when the parental colony is immune-challenged.
Moret Y, Schmid-Hempel P
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The Foraging of Bumble Bees Part II. Bumble Bees as Pollinators

Bee World, 1954
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Managed bumble bees acquire parasites from their foraging environment: A case study on parasite spillback

Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2021
Guy Smagghe, Joachim Rodrigues De Miranda, Ivan Meeus   +2 more
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The nesting places of some British bumble bees

Journal of Apicultural Research, 1992
Sarah A Corbet
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Water Collection by Bumble Bees

Journal of Apicultural Research, 1996
Sarah A Corbet
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Bumble Bees

2006
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Bumble Bees inquilinism

2009
In social insects, severe brood care costs have favoured the evolution of cheaters that exploit workers services of conspecifics or heterospecifics. In Bumblebees, a lot of species use hosts facultatively as an alternative to care for their own brood, while Psithyrus species have lost their worker caste and are completely dependant on hosts to produce ...
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Native Australian carpenter bees as a potential alternative to introducing bumble bees for tomato pollination in greenhouses

Journal of Apicultural Research, 2000
Katja Hogendoorn
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Forage for bumble bees and honey bees in farmland: a case study

Journal of Apicultural Research, 1991
Sarah A Corbet
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BBCI: A new initiative to document Chinese bumble bees for pollination research

Journal of Apicultural Research, 2010
Jiaxing Huang, Jiandong An, Paul H Williams   +2 more
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