A century of advances in bumblebee domestication and the economic and environmental aspects of its commercialization for pollination

HHW Velthuis, A Van Doorn - Apidologie, 2006 - apidologie.org
This paper reviews a century of progress in techniques of bumblebee rearing, starting with
those used to encourage bumblebee queens to initiate a colony in artificial domiciles and …

Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses

K Maebe, AF Hart, L Marshall… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bumblebees are ubiquitous, cold‐adapted eusocial bees found worldwide from subarctic to
tropical regions of the world. They are key pollinators in most temperate and boreal …

Dynamic microbiome evolution in social bees

WK Kwong, LA Medina, H Koch, KW Sing, EJY Soh… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The highly social (eusocial) corbiculate bees, comprising the honey bees, bumble bees, and
stingless bees, are ubiquitous insect pollinators that fulfill critical roles in ecosystem services …

[KIRJA][B] The structure and dynamics of geographic ranges

KJ Gaston - 2003 - books.google.com
No species occurs everywhere. Indeed, the majority are absent from most places, and where
they do occur they are usually quite rare. Gaston discusses the structure of these …

[KIRJA][B] Bumblebees: behaviour, ecology, and conservation

D Goulson - 2010 - books.google.com
Bumblebees are familiar and charismatic insects, occurring throughout much of the world.
They are increasingly being used as a model organism for studying a wide range of …

Bumblebee vulnerability and conservation world-wide

PH Williams, JL Osborne - Apidologie, 2009 - apidologie.org
We review evidence from around the world for bumblebee declines and review
management to mitigate threats. We find that there is evidence that some bumblebee …

Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest

JC Grixti, LT Wong, SA Cameron, C Favret - Biological conservation, 2009 - Elsevier
Declines in many bumble bee species have been documented in Europe raising several
ecological and economic concerns. The nature and extent of bumble bee decline in North …

Global effects of extreme temperatures on wild bumblebees

B Martinet, S Dellicour, G Ghisbain… - Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Climate plays a key role in sha** population trends and determining the geographic
distribution of species because of limits in species' thermal tolerance. An evaluation of …

Comparison of pesticide exposure in honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): implications for risk assessments

AE Gradish, J Van Der Steen… - Environmental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
To date, regulatory pesticide risk assessments have relied on the honey bee (Apis mellifera
L.)(Hymenoptera: Apidae) as a surrogate test species for estimating the risk of pesticide …

[HTML][HTML] A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera)

MS Engel - Bulletin of the American Museum of natural History, 2001 - BioOne
A MONOGRAPH OF THE BALTIC AMBER BEES AND EVOLUTION OF THE APOIDEA (HYMENOPTERA)
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