wasfunded by a project of the Planting Management Depart-ment of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs(152307023);the Science and Technology Programof Qiandongnan Prefecture(Qiandongnan[2021]07).
Bumblebees play an important ecological economic role as pollinators in natureand agriculture.For reasons of biosecurity,many countries promote the cultivation of na-tive bumblebee species for crop pollination instead...
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant numbers 32270445 and 31971397);the Support Project of High-level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities in the Period of 14th Fiveyear Plan(Grant number BPHR20220114);the Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund(Grant numbers Y2019XK13 and Y2021XK16).
Bumblebees are a genus of pollinators(Bombus)that play important roles in natural ecosystem and agricultural production.Several bumblebee species have been recorded as under population decline,and the proportion of sp...
This work was supported by the Joint Special Project on Construction of"First-Class Universities and Disciplines"of Yunnan University(202201BF070001-017).
This research was supported by the Talent Foundation of China West Normal University(17YC142 and 17YC137);National General Cultivation Project of China West Normal University(19B029).
This study was partly supported by grants from ANPCYT(PICT 20162084),University of Buenos Aires(UBACYT 201820020170100078BA);CONICET(PIP 112-201501-00633)。
When collecting a flower,bumblebees learn to associate floral features with reward,preferring,and specializing in the most profitable ones they visit(Chittka et al.1999).The proboscis extension reflex(PER)occurs natur...
We warmly thank Irene Konovalova,Danilo Bevk,Paul Williams,Fred-erique Bakker,Maurizio Cornalba,Jakub Straka,and the participants at the ABIM一Alpine Bombus International Meeting for data sharing and/or for the fruitflil discus sions discus sions on Bombus haematurus.The contribution of AC was partly supported through the Project of Ministry of Education,Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia(#III43001).
Species range expansions are crucial for understanding niche formation and the interaction with the environment.Here,we studied the bumblebee Bombus haematurus Kriechbaumer,1870,a species historically distributed from...
Pollen collection is necessary for bee survival and important for flowering plant reproduction, yet if and how pollen extraction motor routines are modified with experience is largely unknown. Here, we used an automat...
Animals have evolved foraging strategies to acquire blends of nutrients that maximize fitness traits. In social insects, nu trie nt regulation is complicated by the fact that few in dividuals, the foragers, must addre...
Although the gut microbial communities in adult bumblebees and their as- sociated functionalities are widely studied, descriptive data on the larval gut microbiota are still limited. The gut microbiota of a fully samp...