Affiliation:
1. University of Mons, Belgium
2. Independant researcher
Abstract
Notes about spontaneous nesting of bumblebees’ queens in Belgium (Hymenoptera: Apidae). - To develop a rearing system for different wild bumblebee species, we experimented techniques for spontaneous nesting of wild queens. Our nest devices, which contain mouse litter as substrate, are used to attract wild bumblebee queens in search of a nest and to initiate brood construction. Over a total of four years of observation, we have installed 57 call nests with a 44 % success rate of nest initiation. However, this method has some limitations and does not show satisfactory results for ground-nesting bumblebee species.
Funder
Université de Mons
Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
Publisher
Observatoire des Abeilles
Subject
General Materials Science
Reference21 articles.
1. Alford, D. V. (1975). Bumblebees. Davis-Poynter, London, 352 pp.
2. Bucánková, A. & V. Ptácek (2012). A test of Bombus terrestris cocoon and other common methods for nest initiation in B. lapidarius and B. hortorum. Journal of Apicultural Science, 56(2): 37–47. https://doi.org/10.2478/v10289-012-0022-x
3. Crowther, L. P., P. L. Hein & A. F. Bourke (2014). Habitat and forage associations of a naturally colonising insect pollinator, the tree bumblebee Bombus hypnorum. PloS One, 9(9): e107568. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107568
4. Djegham, Y., P. Rasmont, F. Rozenfeld & J. C. L. Verhaeghe (1994). Is Bombus terrestris (L.) colony foundation facilitated by the presence of vole (Microtus arvalis (Pallas)) litter? p. 411. In: A. Lenoir, G. Arnold M. Lepage (ed.). Les Insectes sociaux. 12th Congress of the International Union for the Study of social Insectes IUSSI. Paris-Sorbonne, 21–27 August 1994. Publications de l’Université de Paris-Nord, Paris, 583 pp. http://www.atlashymenoptera.net/biblio/00500/062_1994_Djegham_et_al_Bombus_terrestris_foundation_with_Microtus_arvalis.PDF [accessed 10 December 2023]
5. Doussot, C., O. J. N. Bertrand & M. Egelhaaf (2020). Visually guided homing of bumblebees in ambiguous situations: A behavioural and modelling study. PLoS Computational Biology, 16(10): e1008272. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008272
Cited by
1 articles.
订阅此论文施引文献
订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献