Little fluffy pollinationg Hymenoptera from the Bombus genus.
I was happy to present our research, entitled ‘Flower visitation through the lens: exploring bumblebees’ behaviour with computer vision-based application‘, at the XII European Congress of Entomology (ECE2023) which was held in Heraklion, Crete, on 16-20 October 2023. In addition to numerous thought-provoking oral presentations and posters, the congress provided a good starting point for potential …
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 …
Of the many gorgeous herbaceous plants and flowering fruit trees, the buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) in our garden chose the blooming cabbage (Brassica oleracea) as their favourite nectar and pollen source this spring. Cabbage is a cross-pollinated crop, which means it is not capable of self-fertilisation, thus pollination via insects is one of the best …
Background In recent decades, the populations of pollinators have been declining worldwide. This is increased by anthropogenic background factors such as agrochemical pollution, degradation of natural habitats, noise, dust and heavy metal loads from roads. Anthropogenic noise is a type of pollution that has so far been little studied, but it has been proven to …