Category for the “Environmental impacts on bumblebees’ behaviour” project
Between 16 and 19 September, I had the pleasure of attending the 10th Congress of Apidology (organized by the Estonian University of Life Sciences) in Tallinn, Estonia. It was a special gift for me to be able to present a poster, entitled ‘Buzzing under pressure: Investigating the effects of anthropogenic disturbance on the intraspecific behaviour …
In addition to wild pollinators visiting agricultural lands, ’commercial bumblebees’ (e.g. Bombus terrestris audax in Europea) have been used in glass houses and open-field cultivations worldwide since the 1980s. Indeed, bumblebees (Bombus sp.) are the most efficient pollinators for a wide variety of popular crops, such as tomatoes and strawberries, and it is also well-known …