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Brood parasitism reduces but does not prevent Bombus terrestris reproductive success

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Graphical depiction of the colony splitting process. Throughout figures in this paper, results pertaining to host success are represented in blue, and cuckoo success is represented in red. Abstract Cuckoo bumblebees are obligate brood parasites that must invade a colony of their host bumblebee species in order to reproduce.
Sofia Dartnell, Lynn V. Dicks
wiley   +1 more source

The Flower Constancy of Bumblebees

The Journal of Animal Ecology, 1970
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Potential Correlation Between Bombus lantschouensis Thoracic Morphology and Flight Behavior

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Potential correlation between Bombus lantschouensis thoracic morphology and flight behavior. ABSTRACT Remarkably little modern work has investigated the thoracic structures of insects and their relationship to flight locomotion. Most studies focus exclusively on either morphology or flight kinematics.
Wenjie Li, Sipei Liu, Le Zong, Zhengzhong Huang, Lei Jiang, Xiaokun Liu, Pingping Yang, Yitian Zhang, Zhong Du, Weili Fan, Zhuanghui Qin, Xieshuang Wang, Xinying Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Haodong Yin, Jiandong An, Chaodong Zhu, Michael C. Orr, Jiangning Wang, Siqin Ge   +19 more
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
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RNA editing is abundant and correlates with task performance in a social bumblebee

Nature Communications, 2019
Bumblebee workers are genetically highly similar but they show different behaviors such as brood care and foraging. Here the authors report a high level of ADAR-mediated RNA editing in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris and its weak correlation to task ...
Hagit T. Porath, Esther Hazan, Hagai Shpigler, Mira Cohen, Mark Band, Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Erez Y. Levanon, Eli Eisenberg, Guy Bloch   +8 more
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AutoPollS: A tool for automated monitoring of pollinators using deep learning

Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.
Abstract Deep learning and computer vision hold enormous potential for automated monitoring of biodiversity, including pollinators and other insects. Efficient, scalable monitoring of insect pollinators is crucial given pollinators' role in supporting biodiversity and agricultural productivity amidst declining pollinator populations.
Matthew A.‐Y. Smith, Olivia M. Bernauer, Grace Melone, Brett Graham, Julia Wiessing, Rafael Salas, Jeremy Hemberger, Abhishek Bhattacharyya, Acacia T. S. Tang, Elena Rojas, Joshua San Miguel, Brian J. Spiesman, Claudio Gratton, James D. Crall   +13 more
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Annual flower strips under the ‘Sweden Blossom’ initiative – how do they perform for pollinators, natural enemies and herbivores?

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Pollinator‐targeted annual flower strips increase abundances of pollinators but also natural enemies and herbivores. Natural enemies and herbivores disperse in a taxon‐specific manner into nearby crops. Pest control by ground‐dwellers slightly increases in crop areas near the flower strips.
Neus Rodríguez‐Gasol, Ola Lundin, Elodie Chapurlat, Mattias Hammarstedt, Mattias Jonsson, Johan A. Stenberg, Maria Viketoft   +6 more
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Combined stress from parasites, pesticides and lack of flowers drives bee declines [PDF]

, 2015
Bees are subject to numerous pressures in the modern world. The abundance and diversity of flowers has declined, bees are chronically exposed to cocktails of agrochemicals, and they are simultaneously exposed to novel parasites accidentally spread by ...
Botias Talamantes, Cristina, Goulson, Dave, Nicholls, Beth, Rotheray, Ellen   +3 more
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Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban bees of the world

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Bees play a pivotal role in terrestrial environments. Urbanization can affect these organisms and the ecosystem services they provide. However, knowledge of the global diversity of urban bees is limited. Thus, we summarized data on urban bee species identities and occurrences; compared distributions of all bees with those found in urban ...
João C. F. Cardoso, Pietro K. Maruyama, Ingrid N. Gomes, Lorena B. Valadão‐Mendes, Victor H. D. Silva, Larissa Lorraine, Jordana O. Borges, Rogério V. Gonçalves, Léo C. Rocha‐Filho, Renata Trevizan, Yasmine Antonini   +10 more
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Distinct virome compositions and lack of viral diversification indicate that viral spillover is a dead-end between the western honey bee and the common eastern bumblebee

Communications Biology
Pathogen spillover events are of global concern as they have the potential to cause significant harm to the novel host species. The potential of viral spillover from the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) to other insects is well established.
Dean A. McKeown, Elaine Evans, Jessica Helgen, Jenny Warner, Rishia Zimmern, Rebecca Masterman, Adrienne Berrington, Morgan Nemecek, Clara Costello, Elise Bernstein, Poppy J. Hesketh-Best, Bridget Mendel, Marla Spivak, Declan C. Schroeder   +13 more
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