Consistent pollen nutritional intake drives bumble bee (Bombus impatiens ) colony growth and reproduction across different habitats

Seasonal Food Scarcity Prompts Long-Distance Foraging by a Wild Social Bee

(2018) Nathaniel S. Pope et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

A ‘Landscape physiology’ approach for assessing bee health highlights the benefits of floral landscape enrichment and semi-natural habitats

(2017) Cédric Alaux et al.   Scientific Reports

Land use in the Northern Great Plains region of the U.S. influences the survival and productivity of honey bee colonies

(2016) Matthew D. Smart et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Different but the same: bumblebee species collect pollen of different plant sources but similar amino acid profiles

(2016) Linda Kriesell et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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

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

Honey bee foragers balance colony nutritional deficiencies

(2016) Harmen P. Hendriksma et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Bumble bee colony dynamics: quantifying the importance of land use and floral resources for colony growth and queen production

(2016) Elizabeth E. Crone et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Bumble bees regulate their intake of essential protein and lipid pollen macronutrients

(2016) A. D. Vaudo et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Adult pollen diet essential for egg maturation by a solitary Osmia bee

(2016) James H. Cane   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

How landscape, pollen intake and pollen quality affect colony growth in Bombus terrestris

(2016) Wiebke Kämper et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Land-use change reduces habitat suitability for supporting managed honey bee colonies in the Northern Great Plains

(2016) Clint R. V. Otto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Macronutrient ratios in pollen shape bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging strategies and floral preferences

(2016) Anthony D. Vaudo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Linking Measures of Colony and Individual Honey Bee Health to Survival among Apiaries Exposed to Varying Agricultural Land Use

(2016) Matthew Smart et al.   PLoS One

Honey bee diet in intensive farmland habitats reveals an unexpectedly high flower richness and a major role of weeds

(2015) Fabrice Requier et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Local Plant Diversity Across Multiple Habitats Supports a Diverse Wild Bee Community in Pennsylvania Apple Orchards

(2015) Melanie A. Kammerer et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL 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

Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

Honey bee success predicted by landscape composition in Ohio, USA

(2015) DB Sponsler et al.   PeerJ

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

(2014) Sabine Konzmann et al.   PLoS One

Individual lifetime pollen and nectar foraging preferences in bumble bees

(2012) Jessica Hagbery et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Resource diversity and landscape-level homogeneity drive native bee foraging

(2012) S. Jha et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nutrient regulation in a predator, the wolf spider Pardosa prativaga

(2011) Kim Jensen et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

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

(2011) Sara Diana Leonhardt et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Landscape-scale resources promote colony growth but not reproductive performance of bumble bees

(2011) Neal M. Williams et al.   ECOLOGY

Nutrition and health in honey bees

(2010) Robert Brodschneider et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Bumblebee foraging rhythms under the midnight sun measured with radiofrequency identification

(2010) Ralph J Stelzer et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Circadian Foraging Rhythms of Bumblebees Monitored by Radio-frequency Identification

(2010) Ralph Jürgen Stelzer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL RHYTHMS

Modelling pollination services across agricultural landscapes

(2009) Eric Lonsdorf et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Surplus Nectar Available for Subalpine Bumble Bee Colony Growth

(2009) Susan E. Elliott   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Subalpine Bumble Bee Foraging Distances and Densities in Relation to Flower Availability

(2009) Susan E. Elliott   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

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)

(2008) Jean-Noël Tasei et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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

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

Long-term observation of a pollination network: fluctuation in species and interactions, relative invariance of network structure and implications for estimates of specialization

(2008) Theodora Petanidou et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Mass flowering oilseed rape improves early colony growth but not sexual reproduction of bumblebees

(2008) C. Westphal et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Coexisting generalist herbivores occupy unique nutritional feeding niches

(2008) S. T. Behmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA