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Inferring rare bumble bee species occurrences from nontarget bumble bee assemblages
… and the success of wild plant communities. Bumble bees are some of the most effective pollinators in temperate climates thanks to their cold hardiness, ability to buzz pollinate, and generalist foraging tendencies, but many species are experiencing sharp declines. The endangered rusty …
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Natural and Anthropogenic Drivers of Variation in Bumble Bee Gut Microbiotas
Bumble bees are key pollinators in natural and agricultural ecosystems. Like all social bees, their health is supported by a core gut microbiota consisting of a few, specialized bacterial phylotypes. The composition and community structure of bumble bee gut microbiotas can vary in response to …
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Connecting above- and belowground effects of climate warming on bumble bee health
<p>Climate warming has been identified as one of the primary factors causing worldwide pollinator declines. One of the most at-risk groups of pollinators is bumble bees (<em>Bombus</em> spp.). Bumble bees are common, widespread, and key pollinators of a wide range of crops and wild plants. Although …
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Colony Life History in the Bumble Bee Bombus terrestris: Interactions, Timing and Control.
… thesis, I use laboratory experiments with the bumble bee Bombus terrestris to investigate the control of eusocial insect colony life history, with a focus on the interactions that bring about control over timing. Specifically, I reveal queen control over the onset of male production; show that …
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How to design a bumble bee, or a Curl Code Editor that will fly ...
The Curl language is a new web development language being written in the Computer Architecture Group at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. This thesis describes my design considerations for writing a code editor expressly for the language Curl. The motivation, design philosophy and process, …
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PATTERNS OF AMERICAN BUMBLE BEE (BOMBUS PENSYLVANICUS) ABUNDANCE ACROSS RESTORED HABITATS IN EAST TEXAS ECOSYSTEMS
<p>Many bumble bee species (<em>Bombus</em> spp.), are declining, yet drivers of their abundance remain partially understood. In the southeastern United States, historically open habitats have shifted towards closed-canopy conditions via fire suppression, deforestation and afforestation, altering …
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Landscape effects on bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colony performance and fitness in New York State
Pollinators such as bumble bees are in decline as a result of many factors, including loss of habitat. Initiatives to improve and restore pollinator habitat have become increasingly popular. However, to most effectively conserve pollinators, we need a better understanding of which habitats are …
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The role of small RNAs in caste determination and differentiation in the bumble bee, Bombus terrestris
… caste determination and differentiation in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris. In Chapter 2, I used deep sequencing (miRNA-seq) and bioinformatics to annotate miRNAs in B. terrestris and a second Bombus species, B. impatiens. I found that B. terrestris yielded 131 miRNAs and B. impatiens yielded …
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Phylogeny and color pattern evolution in a New World bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus: Pyrobombus) species complex
… is one of the most common and widespread bumble bee species throughout Mexico and Central America. This robust and charismatic species possesses a highly variable color pattern throughout its wide distribution across montane and lowland regions, which raises the question of whether or not …
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Avian diet and visual perception suggests avian predation selects for color pattern mimicry in bumble bees
… and since publication their theories have been used to explain numerous other mimicry systems. Bumble bees can be found in throughout the temperate parts of the word, as well as the high mountains and polar regions. In any given area, the local bumble bee species tend to share the same …
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The Effects of Temporal Cold Exposure and Caste Differences on Gene Expression and Epigenetics of Common Bumble Bee Species
… the cold-induced molecular responses of bumble bees, a genus common across North America with morphological and physiological characteristics adapted for cooler environments. I first investigated cold-induced temporal gene expression changes in a common eastern species, Bombus impatiens. …
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Landscape composition and configuration affect nest founding but not success of bumble bee colonies in agroecosystems in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada.
… Columbia, I assessed demographic responses of bumble bees to the availability of resources as inferred from landscape structure (i.e., landscape composition and configuration), and examined the spatial scale that best explained responses to the landscape. I used mixed model regression analysis …
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Competitive Effects of Honey Bee (Apis melifera) Hives on Morphology and Morphology-Based Abundance of Bumble Bees (Apidae: Bombus) in an Urban Prairie Landscape (City of Red Deer, Alberta)
… there were measurable effects of managed honey bees (Apis melifera) on bumble bee (Bombus) populations in the City of Red Deer, with an intent to aid wild bee conservation in the area as well as decision-making regarding possible legislation of honey bee keeping within the city. A growing body …
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Developmental timing of pupation and analysis of color pattern response to thermal stress in Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Bumble bees comprise a genus of approximately 250 species that exhibit high diversity in color pattern phenotypes, colony sizes, and habitats across the globe. Nearly two centuries of research have investigated the biological factors leading to their widespread distribution and ecological …
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Mathematical quantification and statistical analysis of bombus (hymenoptera:apidae) dorsal color patterns
… to a common predator (Wickler 1965)] has been an important topic in the study of evolutionary adaptation and visual signaling via color patterns since Fritz Müller first noticed it among Amazonian Heliconius butterflies. It has been documented in a wide variety of taxa, vertebrate and …
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Genomic studies of social evolution in bees
The eusocial insects (ants, termites, and some bees and wasps) are paragons of social complexity, with their highly organized societies comprised of primarily sterile workers, headed by one or a few reproductives. Despite a rich body of theoretical, empirical, and natural history research on social …
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The role of communication in the foraging process of social bees
In the various groups of social bees, different systems of communication about food sources occur. These communication systems are different solutions to a common problem of social insects: efficiently allocating the necessary number of workers first to the task of foraging and second to the most …
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An ecological study of Batesian mimicry in the British Syrphidae (Diptera)
… Hymenoptera. Once presumed model/mimic pairs had been suggested, a comprehensive survey of three sites in the north west of England was undertaken during 1994. Each site was visited once a week and counts were made of all Syrphidae and Hymenoptera on three plots at each site. Mean frequencies of …
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Bees, Bombs, and Burns: Disturbance and the Native Bee Communities of Military and Other Public Lands in Virginia
… disturbances and effects of military land usage, bee conservation, the effects of disturbance on bees, and an introduction to the Southern Plains Bumble Bee (Bombus fraternus Smith 1854) In Chapter 3, we conducted bee, plant, and habitat surveys on Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, USA to …
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Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of Plant-Pollinator Interaction Rewiring
… that connects the removal of the most abundant bumble bee in a community to the production of fertilized seeds in a focal plant. In this experiment, I find that the composition of the plant and pollinator communities as well as the distribution of morphological traits both guilds influences the …
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