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Insects, 2022 Bumble bees and honey bees are of vital importance for tomato pollination, although honey bees are less attracted to tomato flowers than bumble bees. Little is known about how tomato flower volatile compounds influence the foraging behaviors of honey ...
Jinjia Liu +5 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Central place foragers depart from and return to a central location with enough resources for themselves, and in many cases, for the group. Honey bees and bumble bees are eusocial central place foragers.
Danny F. Minahan +2 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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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Alpine bumble bees are the most important pollinators in temperate mountain ecosystems. Although they are used to encounter small-scale successions of very different climates in the mountains, many species respond sensitively to climatic changes ...
Fabienne Maihoff +9 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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The Bumble Bees of Florida, Bombus spp.
EDIS, 2011 Bumble bees are easily recognized by the corbicula (pollen basket) on the hind tibiae in the females. They are beneficial insects that pollinate many native and ornamental plants.
Lionel A. Stange
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Flower Color as Predictor for Nectar Reward Quantity in an Alpine Flower Community
Frontiers 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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Does pathogen spillover from commercially reared bumble bees threaten wild pollinators? [PDF]
PLoS 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
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Psyche: 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]
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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