This paper reviews a century of progress in techniques of bumblebee rearing, starting with
those used to encourage bumblebee queens to initiate a colony in artificial domiciles and …

▪ Abstract Bees are generally regarded as beneficial insects for their role in pollination, and
in the case of the honeybee Apis mellifera, for production of honey. As a result several bee …

Since the rise of agriculture, human populations have domesticated plant and animal
species to fulfil their needs. With modern agriculture, a limited number of these species has …

I have been watching the gradual and very visible decline of Mexican and Central American
insect density and species richness since 1953 and Winnie since 1978. The loss is very real …

Invasive alien species affect the composition and functioning of invaded ecosystems in
many ways, altering ecological interactions that have arisen over evolutionary timescales …

Global changes are severely affecting pollinator insect communities worldwide, resulting in
repeated patterns of species extirpations and extinctions. Whilst negative population trends …

Islands harbour much of the world's threatened biodiversity. Recent work has highlighted
how it is not species diversity per se but rather the interactions between organisms that …

The introduced Bombusáterrestris has recently been naturalized in Japan and become
dominant in some local communities. We investigated potential niche overlaps between …

Bombus terrestris is one of the most abundant bumblebee species in the West-Palaearctic.
Its widespread domestication results in the movement of many colonies. The aim of this …

Dispersal ability is a key determinant of the propensity of an organism to cope with habitat
fragmentation and climate change. Here we quantify queen dispersal in two common …