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Julius-Kühn-Archiv, 2018 A preliminary data evaluation was conducted by ECPA companies to compare the sensitivity of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) with the sensitivity of honeybees (Apis mellifera).
Dinter, Axel +9 more
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Foraging Bumblebees Selectively Attend to Other Types of Bees Based on Their Reward-Predictive Value
Insects, 2020 Using social information can be an efficient strategy for learning in a new environment while reducing the risks associated with trial-and-error learning. Whereas social information from conspecifics has long been assumed to be preferentially attended by
Jose E. Romero-González +5 more
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Bumblebees of the Subarctic Region in European Russia—Their Significance and Conservation
Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2022 Regarding the bumblebee fauna, a number of regions of Russia are still insufficiently studied. These include Arkhangelsk Region, a large territory that is partly located in the subarctic region of Northern European Russia.
Grigory Potapov
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Review of the methods to determine the hazard and toxicity of pesticides to bumblebees [PDF]
, 2001 Methods to determine the impact of pesticides on bumblebees are described. They are classified into laboratory tests to determine the acute toxicity and the hazard to bumblebees, (semi) field tests, and brood tests.
Steen, J.J.M., van der +3 more
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SOCIAL INFORMATION USE IN SOCIAL INSECTS [PDF]
, 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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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2017 Relationships between flower visitor composition and floral traits help us to understand floral evolution. Swallowtail butterflies have been assumed to be the main pollinators of Rhododendron kaempferi and R. japonicum based on their floral shapes, and R.
Keigo Takahashi, Takao Itino
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Agrociencia, 2020 In Uruguay, the production of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) in greenhouse presents pollination issues that limit its yield. The use of bumblebees (Bombus spp.) as pollinators can help overcome this problem as they perform “buzzing pollination”, a ...
Sheena Salvarrey +4 more
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Insects, 2023 Pollen is an important source of nutrition for bumblebees to survive, reproduce, and raise their offspring. To explore the nutritional requirements for the egg laying and hatching of queenright Bombus breviceps colonies, camellia pollen, oilseed rape ...
Chang-Shi Ren +4 more
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Conspecific and Heterospecific Information Use in Bumblebees [PDF]
, 2012 PMCID: PMC3275629This 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 ...
Lars Chittka +5 more
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Spontaneous relational and object similarity in wild bumblebees [PDF]
, 2022 Being able to abstract relations of similarity is considered one of the hallmarks of human cognition. While previous research has shown that other animals (e.g.
Martín Ordás, Gema, Martin-Ordas, Gema
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