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Scientific American, 1984 For most people the beehive and the intricate social organization of the honeybees that populate it are the hallmark of bee life. In reality more than 85 percent of the some 20,000 bee species are not social but solitary. Each female independently mates, makes her own nest of about 10 brood cells, stocks the cells with food for the young, lays an egg ...
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Numerical cognition in bees and other insects [PDF]
, 2016 The ability to perceive the number of objects has been known to exist in vertebrates for a few decades, but recent behavioral investigations have demonstrated that several invertebrate species can also be placed on the continuum of numerical abilities ...
Pahl, Mario, Si, Aung, Zhang, Shaowu
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Castlemaine Naturalist, 1994 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Foraging ranges of solitary bees
Journal of Animal Ecology, 2002 Summary Habitat requirements of solitary bees include nesting sites, food resources and nesting material. We used translocation experiments to establish foraging distances and measured foraging trip duration to analyse how solitary bees cope with the distance between nesting sites and suitable food plants in different habitat types.
Gathmann, Achim, Tscharntke, Teja
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Mitigating the Effects of Habitat Loss on Solitary Bees in Agricultural Ecosystems
Agriculture, 2020 Solitary bees and other wild pollinators provide an important ecosystem service which can benefit both the agricultural economy and the sustainability of many native ecosystems. Many solitary bees, however, are experiencing decreases in their populations
Olivia Kline, Neelendra K. Joshi
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Reliability of the entomovector technology using Prestop-Mix and Bombus terrestris L. as a fungal disease biocontrol method in open field [PDF]
, 2016 Botrytis cinerea Pers.: Fr. is a major plant pathogen, and a new approach is needed for its control in strawberry to minimise the increasing use of synthetic fungicides.
Dreyersdorff, Gerit +7 more
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Wild solitary bees and their use of bee hotels in southwest Spain
Journal of Apicultural Research, 2021 There is an increasing interest in preserving and, if possible, increasing wild bee populations as evidenced by increasinginvestigations into providing supplemental nesting resources, commonly called bee hotels. The study presented herewas carried out in 2017 and 2018 with two objectives: a) to understand the role that insect refuges could have ...
José Enrique González-Zamora +2 more
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Using citizen science to examine the nesting ecology of ground‐nesting bees
Ecosphere, 2019 Suitable nest sites are a crucial habitat requirement of ground‐nesting bees, but empirical studies of fossorial solitary bee nesting ecology in the UK are few in number.
Stephanie Maher +2 more
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Desynchronizations in bee–plant interactions cause severe fitness losses in solitary bees [PDF]
Journal of Animal Ecology, 2017 Abstract Global warming can disrupt mutualistic interactions between solitary bees and plants when increasing temperature differentially changes the timing of interacting partners. One possible scenario is for insect phenology to advance more rapidly than plant phenology.
Mariela Schenk +2 more
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Ecology and evolution of pyrazines in insects
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Chemical communication is the oldest and most widespread form of signalling among and within organisms. Among the many compounds involved in such communication, pyrazines – nitrogen‐containing heterocyclic molecules – are especially intriguing due to their widespread occurrence across the tree of life, from bacteria and fungi to insects and ...
Zowi Oudendijk +2 more
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