Invasion Status and Potential Ecological Impacts of an Invasive Alien Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Naturalized in Southern Hokkaido, Japan

By C. Matsumura, J. Yokoyama, Izumi Washitani. 2004

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• Displacement of Japanese native bumblebees by the recently introduced Bombus terrestris (L.) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (2008, background): “Since then, increasing numbers of B. terrestris queens emerging from hibernation have been recorded around the area, and this species had become dominant in the bumblebee fauna by 2003 ( Matsumura et al. 2004 ).”
• Bombus terrestris, pollinator, invasive and pest: An assessment of problems associated with its widespread introductions for commercial purposes (2010, background): “B. terrestris is adaptable and readily accepts arti- ficial nests (Prys-Jones and Corbet, 1991; Matsumura et al., 2004).”
• Massively Introduced Managed Species and Their Consequences for Plant–Pollinator Interactions (2017, background): “Likewise, Matsumura et al. (2004) have highlighted the similarity between B. terrestris and local bumblebee species nests.”
• Commercialized European bumblebee can cause pollination disturbance: An experiment on seven native plant species in Japan (2007, methodology): “Second, B. terrestris possibly decreases population density of native bumblebees through competition for overlapped floral resources and nest site (Matsumura et al., 2004), and this prediction is consistent with recent data.”
• Worldwide migration of parasitic mites as a result of bumblebee commercialization (2006, unknown): “However, because the Japanese and European CO1 haplotypes were closely related, there was a possibility that the European haplotypes found in the mites in the Hokkaido Island revealed native variation.”
• Unveiling cryptic species of the bumblebee subgenus Bombus s. str. worldwide with COI barcodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (2012, background): “For example in Japan, B. terrestris was introduced into glasshouses, but feral colonies were soon discovered and the species is spreading and replacing the indigenous B. hypocrita (Matsumura et al., 2004; Inoue et al., 2008).”