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

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(2012) Chengcheng Li et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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No Trade-Off between Learning Speed and Associative Flexibility in Bumblebees: A Reversal Learning Test with Multiple Colonies

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Nutrient regulation in a predator, the wolf spider Pardosa prativaga

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

(2011) Sara Diana Leonhardt et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Can Pollen Headspace Volatiles and Pollenkitt Lipids Serve as Reliable Chemical Cues for Bee Pollinators?

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Patterns of range-wide genetic variation in six North American bumble bee (Apidae: Bombus) species

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(2010) Christiane Natalie Weiner et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Trapline foraging by pollinators: its ontogeny, economics and possible consequences for plants

(2009) Kazuharu Ohashi et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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(2009) Audrey Dussutour et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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(2009) Blaise W. LeBlanc et al.   FOOD CHEMISTRY

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(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)

(2008) Jean-Noël Tasei et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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(2008) T. K. Kitaoka et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

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

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

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