Is non-host pollen suitable for generalist bumblebees?

Bee food: the chemistry and nutritional value of nectar, pollen and mixtures of the two

(2017) Susan W. Nicolson   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

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

(2016) Fabian A. Ruedenauer et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Honey Bee Toxicology

(2015) Reed M. Johnson   Annual Review of Entomology

Growth Rate of Bumblebee Larvae is Related to Pollen Amino Acids

(2015) Romain Moerman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2015) F. A. Ruedenauer et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Nutrient balancing of the adult worker bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) depends on the dietary source of essential amino acids

(2015) D. Stabler et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Xenobiotic detoxification pathways in honey bees

(2015) May R Berenbaum et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Secondary Compounds in Floral Rewards of Toxic Rangeland Plants: Impacts on Pollinators

(2014) Rebecca E. Irwin et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Herbivore Defence Compounds Occur in Pollen and Reduce Bumblebee Colony Fitness

(2014) Sarah E. J. Arnold et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

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

(2014) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   PLoS One

An overview of theBombus terrestris(L. 1758) subspecies (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2013) Pierre Rasmont et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Standardized protocol to evaluate pollen polypeptides as bee food source

(2013) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Molecular diversity and body distribution of saponins in the sea star Asterias rubens by mass spectrometry

(2013) Marie Demeyer et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

DoesAconitum septentrionalechemically protect floral rewards to the advantage of specialist bumblebees?

(2013) MATTHIAS GOSSELIN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Intra- and interpopulational variation in the ability of a solitary bee species to develop on non-host pollen: implications for host range expansion

(2013) Mare Haider et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

(2013) Michael Eckhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Micro-Quantitative Method for Analysis of Sterol Levels in Honeybees and Their Pollen Loads

(2011) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   ANALYTICAL LETTERS

The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies

(2011) Sara Diana Leonhardt et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Closely related pollen generalist bees differ in their ability to develop on the same pollen diet: evidence for physiological adaptations to digest pollen

(2011) Claudio Sedivy et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

The triterpene glycosides of Holothuria forskali: usefulness and efficiency as a chemical defense mechanism against predatory fish

(2011) S. Van Dyck et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Diet effects on honeybee immunocompetence

(2010) C. Alaux et al.   Biology Letters

The chemical ecology and evolution of bee–flower interactions: a review and perspectivesThe present review is one in the special series of reviews on animal–plant interactions.

(2010) S. Dötterl et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Quercetin-metabolizing CYP6AS enzymes of the pollinator Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2009) Wenfu Mao et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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

(2008) Jean-Noël Tasei et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Pollen hosts of western palaearctic bees of the genus Colletes (Hymenoptera: Colletidae): the Asteraceae paradox

(2008) ANDREAS MÜLLER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF POLLEN HOST PLANT USE BY STABLE AND DECLINING BUMBLE BEE SPECIES

(2008) David Kleijn et al.   ECOLOGY

SPECIALIZED BEES FAIL TO DEVELOP ON NON-HOST POLLEN: DO PLANTS CHEMICALLY PROTECT THEIR POLLEN

(2008) Christophe J. Praz et al.   ECOLOGY

Breeding system, pollinator choice and variation in pollen quality in British herbaceous plants

(2008) M. E. Hanley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Validation of a Method Using Queenless Bombus terrestris Micro-Colonies for Testing the Nutritive Value of Commercial Pollen Mixes by Comparison with Queenright Colonies

(2008) Jean-Noël Tasei et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY