Bumblebees look cute. They have a thick fur, fly somewhat clumsily and are less aggressive than honeybees or wasps. They are very much appreciated by farmers as keen pollen collectors. Particularly in ...

The news that native bees are cut from a different cloth has important implications for conservation practices and may also inform the way imported commercial populations are managed. The new research ...

Solitary organisms can minimise fitness loss from parasitism with a facultative change to an earlier reproduction. Such a shift of the reproductive effort gives the host a chance to compensate for the ...

Analysis: Bombus terrestris, also known as the buff-tailed bumblebee, is a model-organism for pollinator research and evaluating how they respond on both molecular and ecological levels could be a ...

A foreign subspecies of bumblebee, imported as part of a billion-dollar global trade in pollinators, was found by researchers at Queen Mary’s School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences to pose a ...

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