Bumblebees: Behaviour, Ecology, and Conservation (Second Edition)

“B. gerstaeckeri on Aconitum spp.”

p. 113 #6492480

“they enter the nest, kill the queen, and take over her role”

p. 12 #6492350

“Infected queens become increasingly sluggish and eventually die in spring or early summer”

p. 71 #6492419

“up to 165 deutonymphs on a single B. lapidarius queen”

p. 72 #6492420

“L. buchneri is truly parasitic, feeding directly on the haemolymph of its host”

p. 72 #6492421

“leads to the death of the host bee about 10–12 days after infection”

p. 62 #6492422

“She invades bee nests and lays her eggs in the pupal cocoons”

p. 65 #6492423

“beetle climbs onto a flower, hitches a ride to a nest”

p. 74 #6492449

“Psithyrus female will lay eggs reared by bumblebee workers as their own”

p. 77 #6492450

“rates of 20–40% for invasion of B. lapidarius nests”

p. 78 #6492451

“may be an obligate parasite of its close relative B. ruderarius”

p. 76 #6492452

“Impacts of non-native bees and commercial beekeeping”

p. 188 #6492351

“Sixty-three per cent of pollen foragers at colonies next to the borage field collected borage pollen”

p. 93 #6492453

“black pollen was primarily poppy Papaver rhoeas L.”

p. 98 #6492454

“grey pollen was primarily bramble Rubus spp.”

p. 98 #6492455

“only accessed by heavy insects such as bumblebees that depress the keel”

p. 82 #6492456

“foraging in artificially created patches of varying size of white clover”

p. 108 #6492478

“traplining B. impatiens become faster and more accurate in following their trapline”

p. 103 #6492479