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Local management and landscape effects on diversity of bees, wasps and birds in urban green areas [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Today almost all ecosystems on Earth are directly or indirectly influenced by human activity. Most species occur in ecosystems that are managed by humans and only a small fraction of biodiversity exists in protected areas.
Ahrné, Karin
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SOCIAL INFORMATION USE IN SOCIAL INSECTS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Social learning plays a valuable role in the lives of many animal taxa, sometimes allowing individuals to bypass the costs of personal exploration. The ubiquity of this behaviour may arise from the fact that learning from others is often underpinned by ...
Dawson, Erika H
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Honey bees exhibit greater patch fidelity than bumble bees when foraging in a common environment

open access: yesEcosphere, 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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Flower Color as Predictor for Nectar Reward Quantity in an Alpine Flower Community

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Entomophilous plants have evolved colorful floral displays to attract flower visitors to achieve pollination. Although many insects possess innate preferences for certain colors, the underlying proximate and ultimate causes for this behavior are still ...
Martin Streinzer   +2 more
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Abundance and Diversity of Native Bumble Bees Associated with Agricultural Crops: The Willamette Valley Experience

open access: yesPsyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2010
There are widespread concerns about declining populations of bumble bees due to conversion of native habitats to agroecosystems. Certain cropping systems, however, provide enormous foraging resources, and are beneficial for population build up of native ...
Sujaya Rao, W. P. Stephen
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Bumble bees create a buzz [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 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 ...
openaire   +2 more sources

The Bee Hemolymph Metabolome: A Window into the Impact of Viruses on Bumble Bees [PDF]

open access: yesViruses, 2021
State-of-the-art virus detection technology has advanced a lot, yet technology to evaluate the impacts of viruses on bee physiology and health is basically lacking. However, such technology is sorely needed to understand how multi-host viruses can impact the composition of the bee community.
Luoluo Wang   +4 more
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Bumble bees of Unama'ki [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
I. What s all the Buzz about?II. Amu of Unama kiIII. Bee-coming an advocate for bumblebeesBumble bees of Unama’ki: A Guide to Becoming a Buzzing Naturalist is an online guide targeted at the young and the young at heart naturalist that is interested in ...
Kosick, Hannah
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Does pathogen spillover from commercially reared bumble bees threaten wild pollinators? [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2008
The conservation of insect pollinators is drawing attention because of reported declines in bee species and the 'ecosystem services' they provide. This issue has been brought to a head by recent devastating losses of honey bees throughout North America ...
Michael C Otterstatter, James D Thomson
doaj   +1 more source

Repellency of insecticides and the effect of thiacloprid on bumble bee colony development in red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) seed crops

open access: yesActa Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section B, Soil and Plant Science, 2019
The study intended to compare repellency of three insecticides on bumble bees and honey bees in Norwegian red clover (Trifolium pratense L.) seed crops, and to examine effects of thiacloprid on bumble bee colony development in the field.
Lars T. Havstad   +3 more
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