Conserved, yet disruption-prone, gut microbiomes in neotropical bumblebees
mSphere, 2023 Bumblebees are important pollinators in natural ecosystems and agriculture, but many species are declining. Temperate-zone bumblebees have host-specific and beneficial gut microbiomes, which may have a role in mediating the effects of stressors. However,
Nickole Villabona +3 more
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Big bees do a better job : intraspecific size variation influences pollination effectiveness [PDF]
, 2014 Funding: School of Biology, University of St AndrewsBumblebees (Bombus spp.) are efficient pollinators of many flowering plants, yet the pollen deposition performance of individual bees has not been investigated.
Finlayson, Kathryn +5 more
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Floral Categorization by Bumblebees: The Perceptual and the Functional [PDF]
Animal Behavior and Cognition, 2022 This study examines generalization and perceptual similarity judgments in bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) and addresses whether category formation of floral stimuli is based upon perceptual floral features alone or foraging experiences from reward ...
Vicki Xu, Catherine M. S. Plowright
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Humans Share More Preferences for Floral Phenotypes With Pollinators Than With Pests
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Studies on the selection of floral traits usually consider pollinators and sometimes herbivores. However, humans also exert selection on floral traits of ornamental plants.
Victoria Ruiz-Hernández +27 more
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Winter Active Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) Achieve High Foraging Rates in Urban Britain [PDF]
, 2010 BackgroundForaging bumblebees are normally associated with spring and summer in northern Europe. However, there have been sightings of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris during the warmer winters in recent years in southern England.
Carlton, M +7 more
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A Simple Iterative Model Accurately Captures Complex Trapline Formation by Bumblebees Across Spatial Scales and Flower Arrangements [PDF]
, 2013 PMCID: PMC3591286This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Andrew M Reynolds +14 more
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No trade-off between learning speed and associative flexibility in bumblebees: a reversal learning test with multiple colonies [PDF]
, 2012 Potential trade-offs between learning speed and memory-related performance could be important factors in the evolution of learning. Here, we test whether rapid learning interferes with the acquisition of new information using a reversal learning paradigm.
Raine, Nigel E. +8 more
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A failed invasion? Commercially introduced pollinators in Southern France [PDF]
, 2009 The natural diversity of Bombus terrestris subspecies could be under threat from the commercialisation of bumblebees. Therefore, to determine whether commercially imported bumblebees are able to establish and spread, we carried out
Rasmont, P +14 more
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Relational reasoning in wild bumblebees revisited: the role of distance [PDF]
, 2023 In reasoning tasks, non-human animals attend more to relational than to object similarity. It is precisely this focus on relational similarity that has been argued to explain the reasoning gap between humans and other animals.
Martin-Ordas, Gema
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, 2010 Since bumblebees are a group associated with cool climates, Britain supports a large proportion (~10%) of the world's bumblebee fauna. However, three of our 25 species have become extinct, and seven species are Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) listed, a ...
Dave Goulson, Goulson, Dave
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