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 ...

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 ...

Countries in South America are at risk of losing their indigenous bee populations due to the introduction of alien species to support government agricultural policy. Scientists warn urgent ...

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 ...

I spotted this early honeybee on willow in Conamara on the very first week in March. Paul Dunne It seems a bit furry for a honeybee. It is more likely to be a queen buff-tailed bumble bee – Bombus ...

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 ...

The introduction of a non-native bumblebee species has caused significant disruptions in the pollinator ecosystem of southern ...

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