Can commercially imported bumble bees out‐compete their native conspecifics?

By T. Ings, N. L. Ward, Lars Chittka. 2006

150 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Lars Chittka
2. N. E. Raine
3. C. Morales
4. T. Ings
5. Anna R. Dornhaus
6. M. Aizen
7. S. Cameron
8. M. Arbetman

In Genetics

1. Lars Chittka
2. N. E. Raine
3. T. Ings
4. Anna R. Dornhaus
5. N. Saleh
6. M. Aizen
7. S. Cameron
8. Mark J. F. Brown

In Insect Science

1. Lars Chittka
2. N. E. Raine
3. T. Ings
4. C. Morales
5. Anna R. Dornhaus
6. S. Cameron
7. M. Arbetman
8. N. Saleh

Citations in the corpus

• Mass flowering oilseed rape improves early colony growth but not sexual reproduction of bumblebees (2009, unknown): “In the experiment conducted by Ings et al. (2006), 17% of the native colonies produced young queens and 100% of the native colonies produced males.”
• Rapid ecological replacement of a native bumble bee by invasive species. (2013, background): “The worldwide trade in bumble bee colonies for crop pollination, in particular of Bombus terrestris, has elicited special concern about the potential for invasion by non-native bumble bees and their impacts on native pollinator species (Ings et al. 2006; Arbetman et al. 2013).”
• Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (2006, background): “…measure of biological fitness is foraging performance (Alcock, 1996, p. 159), as the amount of food available to a bumblebee colony is positively correlated with the production of males and new queens (Ings et al., 2005a, 2006; Pelletier and McNeil, 2003; Schmid‐Hempel and Schmid‐Hempel, 1998).”
• Cryptic species diversity in a widespread bumble bee complex revealed using mitochondrial DNA RFLPs (2008, background): “Different subspecies of B. terrestris vary in a number of behavioural traits and frequently non-native subspecies of B. terrestris outcompete native subspecies (Chittka et al. 2004; Ings et al. 2005, 2006 ), as well as transmit pathogens to both conspecifics and congeners (Goka et al. 2001; Colla e”
• A population comparison of the strength and persistence of innate colour preference and learning speed in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (2009, background): “…performance of two geographically isolated populations of B. terrestris (Coppée et al. 2008; Rasmont et al. 2008), known to differ in their foraging performance (Ings et al. 2006)—Bombus terrestris dalmatinus (Dalla Torre) from south-eastern Europe and Bombus terrestris audax (Harris) from the UK.”
• Bombus terrestris, pollinator, invasive and pest: An assessment of problems associated with its widespread introductions for commercial purposes (2010, background): “These measures apply to all pollinators considered for import (Ings et al., 2006) 1) National benefits resulting from pollinator import should be evaluated through environmental, social and economic analysis with particular attention to the precautionary principle and intergenerational equity.”