Hungry for quality—individual bumblebees forage flexibly to collect high-quality pollen

Macronutrient balance and lifespan

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How to know which food is good for you: bumblebees use taste to discriminate between different concentrations of food differing in nutrient content

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Long-term avoidance memory formation is associated with a transient increase in mushroom body synaptic complexes in leaf-cutting ants

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De novo assembly of bacterial transcriptomes from RNA-seq data

(2015) Brian Tjaden   GENOME BIOLOGY

Increased efficiency in identifying mixed pollen samples by meta-barcoding with a dual-indexing approach

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Bee nutrition and floral resource restoration

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Pollen and nectar quality drive the major and minor floral choices of bumble bees

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Foraging bumblebees do not rate social information above personal experience

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Bumblebees are not deterred by ecologically relevant concentrations of nectar toxins

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Evaluating multiplexed next-generation sequencing as a method in palynology for mixed pollen samples

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How Does Pollen Chemistry Impact Development and Feeding Behaviour of Polylectic Bees?

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Divergent Rules for Pollen and Nectar Foraging Bumblebees – A Laboratory Study with Artificial Flowers Offering Diluted Nectar Substitute and Pollen Surrogate

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Protein-poor diet reduces host-specific immune gene expression in Bombus terrestris

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A carbohydrate-rich diet increases social immunity in ants

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Seasonal persistence of bumblebee populations is affected by landscape context

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Standardized protocol to evaluate pollen polypeptides as bee food source

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Pollen mixing in pollen generalist solitary bees: a possible strategy to complement or mitigate unfavourable pollen properties?

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Influence of Pollen Nutrition on Honey Bee Health: Do Pollen Quality and Diversity Matter?

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Bee Food: The Chemistry and Nutritional Value of Nectar, Pollen and Mixtures of the Two

(2011) Susan W. Nicolson   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Evaluation of the nutritive value of maize for honey bees

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Non-protein amino acids in plant defense against insect herbivores: Representative cases and opportunities for further functional analysis

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Avoiding plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus: learning and long-term memory in leaf-cutting ants

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Pollen amino acids and flower specialisation in solitary bees

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Nutrition and health in honey bees

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Convergence of carbohydrate-biased intake targets in caged worker honeybees fed different protein sources

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The importance of protein type and protein to carbohydrate ratio for survival and ovarian activation of caged honeybees (Apis mellifera scutellata)

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Communal Nutrition in Ants

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Insect Herbivore Nutrient Regulation

(2008) Spencer T. Behmer   Annual Review of Entomology

Nutritive value of 15 single pollens and pollen mixes tested on larvae produced by bumblebee workers (Bombus terrestris, Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Manuscript in preparation for Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology Bumble bee pollen foraging regulation: role of pollen quality, storage levels, and odor

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Carbohydrate regulation in relation to colony growth in ants

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Bumble bees heat up for high quality pollen

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