Size variation and foraging rate in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

By J. Spaethe, Anja Weidenmüller. Insectes Sociaux, 2002

264 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. Dave Goulson
2. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
3. Lars Chittka
4. N. E. Raine
5. T. Tscharntke
6. T. Ings
7. C. Westphal
8. Ben Darvill

In Genetics

1. Lars Chittka
2. N. E. Raine
3. Dave Goulson
4. T. Ings
5. T. Tscharntke
6. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
7. Anna R. Dornhaus
8. Richard J. Gill

In Insect Science

1. Lars Chittka
2. Dave Goulson
3. N. E. Raine
4. T. Tscharntke
5. I. Steffan‐Dewenter
6. T. Ings
7. C. Westphal
8. Richard J. Gill

Citations in the corpus

• Foraging trip duration of bumblebees in relation to landscape‐wide resource availability (2006, methodology): “Only foraging trips lasting between 10 and 210 min were considered for the statistical analysis, as short trips could be performed for orientation or defecation ( Capaldi et al. , 2000; Spaethe & Weidenmüller, 2002 ).”
• Adaptation, Genetic Drift, Pleiotropy, and History in the Evolution of Bee Foraging Behavior (2006, background): “, return minus outgoing weight) by the trip duration (Chittka et al., 2004; Ings et al., 2005b; Raine and Chittka, 2005a; Spaethe and Weidenmüller, 2002).”
• Spatial organization and division of labour in the bumblebee Bombus impatiens (2009, background): “…range of body sizes among workers, and larger individuals are often better at foraging and more likely to forage (Alford 1978; Goulson et al. 2002; Spaethe & Weidenmüller 2002; Foster et al. 2004; Worden et al. 2005), whereas smaller individuals are more often observed remaining inside the nest…”
• Productivity increases with variation in aggression among group members in Temnothorax ants (2011, background): “Support for this hypothesis comes from bumblebees where larger workers collect more nectar per unit time (Goulson et al. 2002; Spaethe and Weidenmüller 2002).”
• Does intraspecific size variation in bumblebees allow colonies to efficiently exploit different flowers? (2005, background): “Large bees visit more flowers per unit time, compared with small bees (Spaethe & Weidenmuller, 2002).”
• Generalist foraging of pollinators: diet expansion at high density (2008, background): “It has indeed been shown that large bumblebees have a higher foraging efficiency (Goulson et al. 2002; Spaethe & Weidenmuller 2002), perhaps because of more efficient sensory systems (e.g. Spaethe & Chittka 2003), better ability to learn (e.g. Worden et al. 2005) or simply higher aggressiveness…”
• Chronic impairment of bumblebee natural foraging behaviour induced by sublethal pesticide exposure (2014, methodology): “…in part be due to the fact that larger workers have greater visual acuity and antennal sensitivity which is important for foraging (Spa- ethe & Chittka 2003; Spaethe et al. 2007) and are able to carry much larger pollen loads per foraging trip (Goulson et al. 2002; Spaethe & Weidenm€uller 2002).”
• Information flow and organization of stingless bee foraging (2004, unknown): “In bum-ble bees larval feeding determines the size of the adult bee, which in turn determines the bee’s tendency to forage (Spaethe and Weidenmüller, 2002) and her visual acuity and olfactory perception (Spaethe et al., 2001).”
• The Physiological and Genomic Bases of Bumble Bee Social Behaviour (2015, background): “…on the effect of worker size and age on task allocation, see Amsalem et al., 2013b; Cameron, 1989; Cnaani and Hefetz, 1994; Doorn van, 1986; Goulson et al., 2002; O’Donnell et al., 2000; Spaethe and Chittka, 2003; Spaethe and Weidenmuller, 2002; Worden et al., 2005; Yerushalmi et al., 2006).”