Flight of the Bumble Bee, The
Bumble Bee East US (USDA)
... for flight (approx. 30°C). Given that bumble bees fly in the spring and fall in temperate regions, this internal temperature can be well above ambient ...temperature. Bumble bees rely entirely on ...
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Manipulation of carbohydrate diet and ensuing changes in weight and glycogen storage in bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) queens
... Glycogen is a particularly important form of energy storage in animals (Gilbert, 2011). Insects store glycogen in an organ called the fat body, which is located inside the lining of the abdomen. The fat body is analogous ...
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Life histories and energetics of bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) colonies and workers
... the flight tunnel from the colony; two blue and yellow artificial flowers were placed near the food platform in each foraging arena as visual cues to encourage successful detection of food by the ...the ...
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Bumble Bee Abundance in New York City Community Gardens: Implications for Urban Agriculture
... 50 bee species have been documented within the community gardens of New York City (Matteson et ...of bumble bee. The most abundant native bee is the common eastern bumble bee, ...
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Honey Bee and Bumble Bee Antiviral Defense
... resulting in increased expression of DmVago, which suppresses viral replication. AmDicer-like may serve as a dsRNA sensor, as honey bees have a vago orthologue which is up-regulated in DWV-infected honey bees, but not ...
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Specific recognition of reproductive parasite workers by nest-entrance guards in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris
... It is well-documented in a wide range of social insect species that within-colony variations of cuticular lipid (CL) profiles correlate with fertility status [31,32,49]. Dir- ect evidence that fertility-related compounds ...
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Dynamic Changes of Gut Microbial Communities of Bumble Bee Queens through Important Life Stages
... the bumble bee queen ...mature bumble bee ...honey bee gut produced surfactins and fungicides that can inhibit the important honey bee pathogens Paenibacillus larvae and ...
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Effects of neonicotinoid imidacloprid exposure on bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) queen survival and nest initiation
... that bumble bee queens exposed to environmentally rel- evant levels of imidacloprid during the solitary nest founding phase of their life cycle may suffer reduced survival or delays in nest initiation, ...
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Effects of neonicotinoid imidacloprid exposure on bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) queen survival and nest initiation
... different bumble bee species (Bombus terrestris, Bombus lucorum ...other bumble bee ...Queen bumble bees risk direct exposure to neonicotinoid-contaminated nectar and pollen when they ...
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Queen controlled sex ratios and worker reproduction in the bumble bee Bombus hypnorum, as revealed by microsatellites
... in bumble bees (Ratnieks 1988; but see Ratnieks & Reeve (1992)), and our results are in line with this general ...for bumble bee species where queen caste is determined solely by larval food ...
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Bumble bee species' responses to a targeted conservation measure depend on landscape context and habitat quality
... of bumble bees on arable land when compared with conventional cropping or other less targeted ELS options (Pywell et ...in bumble bees are likely to be determined by patterns of resource availability at ...
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Honey bee-collected pollen is a potential source of Ascosphaera apis infection in managed bumble bees
... of bumble bees started in the early nineties for pollinator-dependent greenhouse ...wild bee populations. therefore, guaranteeing pathogen-free bumble bees is ...honey bee-collected ...of ...
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Landscape effects on bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colony performance and fitness in New York State
... Floral resource data, pesticide use patterns, and incidence of bumble bee pathogens were not assessed in our study. Knowledge of how these factors impact B. impatiens could explain why colonies performed ...
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Successful rearing of bumble bee, bombus haemorrhoidalis smith year round in himachal pradesh in India
... the bumble bees as economically important pollinators for high economic return and offseason ...Indigenous bumble bee species has been considered important to rear and use for pollination services ...
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Effects of flight activity and age on oxidative damage in the honey bee, Apis mellifera
... honey bee flight (Hollander et al., 1999). In our experiments, flight muscle SOD activity decreased in the oldest foragers with the most time spent flying, indicating an association between intense ...
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Conserving Bumble Bees
... Any use of pesticides can affect bumble bees. Decision- making systems such as Integrated Pest Management can be important for developing less toxic responses to pests, and ensure that actual pest damage is taking ...
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The effects of age and behavioral development on honey bee (Apis mellifera) flight performance
... the flight performance of honey bees (whose behavioral development and age can be assessed independently via simple manipulations of colony demographics) between distinct behavioral castes (in-hive nurse bees vs ...
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Energy metabolism in orchid bee flight muscles: carbohydrate fuels all
... insect flight that include wing kinematics, muscle biomechanics, thermoregulation, allometric scaling and metabolic ...during flight, and have been used to address biochemical questions concerning fuel use ...
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Survey of the critically endangered Rusty Patched Bumble bee (Bombus affinis) at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, (USDA-FS) Ill.
... all bumble bees found in the 12 transects over the entire 9 weeks sampled, only a single male ...male bumble bees, once they leave the nest, do not return, and it is unclear how far they will go in search ...
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The scaling of myofibrillar actomyosin ATPase activity in apid bee flight muscle in relation to hovering flight energetics
... insect flight muscle preparation. Use of glycerinated asynchronous insect flight muscle has a number of advantages over skeletal muscle because of the unique way in which this muscle is ...
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