OBTAINING AND PROTECTING RED-CLOVER POLLINATING SPECIES OF BOMBUS (HYMENOPTERA: APIDAE)

Author:

Hobbs G. A.

Abstract

AbstractThe use of false-underground hives (surface hives with tunnels attached to their entrances) when and where the desired species of bumblebees were common made the task of obtaining colonies for pollination purposes comparatively easy. False-underground hives were much less costly to set out than underground hives and attracted many more queens of surface-nesting and versatile species, as well as underground-nesting species, than did surface hives. Apparently the surface-nesting species will accept a nest that is entered through an upward-sloping tunnel but not one that must be reached through a downward-sloping tunnel; underground-nesting species require a tunnel but are not influenced by the direction of its slope.Setting occupied hives on posts with moats protected the queens or their broods from flooding, ants, ground squirrels, skunks, mice, shrews, and ungulates, but not from Psithyrus, even when odoriferous substances were put in the moats to mask the odor of the broods.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Insect Science,Molecular Biology,Physiology,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Structural Biology

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