Nouvelles méthodes de test pour l'évaluation du régime alimentaire chez des colonies orphelines de Bombus terrestris (L) (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Regali, A.; Rasmont, Pierre

doi:10.1051/apido:19950401

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“…Similarly, when pollen quality was tested for bumblebees, it was found that rearing success is better with pollen containing a high protein content (e.g., from Brassica and Prunus) than with pollen from other plants species (e.g., Helianthus and Taraxacum). The cause of the lower rearing success could, however, be caused by a deficiency in components such as an essential amino acid or vitamin instead of a low protein content that characterizes some insect-pollinated and many windpollinated plants (Stanley and Linskens, 1974;Schmidt et al, 1987;Day et al, 1990;Regali and Rasmont, 1995;Roulston and Cane, 2000;Aupinel et al, 2001;Génissel et al, 2002). Corn (Zea mays) pollen, a wind-pollinated species, has been found to have a low nutritional value (van Doorn, unpubl.).…”

Section: Pollenmentioning

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A century of advances in bumblebee domestication and the economic and environmental aspects of its commercialization for pollination

Velthuis¹,

Doorn²

2006

Apidologie

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-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 including those needed for the commercial production of large numbers of colonies for the pollination of agricultural crops. Five species of bumblebees are currently used for crop pollination, the major ones being Bombus terrestris from Eurasia and Bombus impatiens from North America. As a result of their frequent use in foreign territories, there have been reports of B. terrestris becoming established, as well as interactions and/or competition with local (bumble-) bee fauna. Of the many vegetable, fruit and seed crops that bumblebees pollinate, greenhouse tomatoes are of predominant importance. In 2004, 40 000 ha of tomato crops were pollinated, with a crop value of e 12 000 million. The growers benefit from bumblebee pollination because of lower production costs, increased yields, and improved fruit quality. The interrelationship between commercial mechanisms and ecological risks is discussed.bumblebee / pollination / commercial rearing / economic value / ecological impact

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Section: Pollenmentioning

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A century of advances in bumblebee domestication and the economic and environmental aspects of its commercialization for pollination

Velthuis¹,

Doorn²

2006

Apidologie

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849

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“…These studies suggest that social bees do not simply mix pollen but select pollen of specific nutritional properties, e.g., high protein (or overall amino acid) content (Regali and Rasmont 1995;Goulson et al 2005;Hanley et al 2008;Kitaoka and Nieh 2009;Scheper et al 2015), high lipid content (Di Pasquale et al 2013), high phytosterol content (Somme et al 2015), or the protein to lipid ratio (as suggested by Vaudo et al 2015).…”

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Different but the same: bumblebee species collect pollen of different plant sources but similar amino acid profiles

2016

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-Access to abundant and diverse floral plant sources is essential for generalist bees as they obtain all energy and nutrients required from pollen and nectar. Despite their importance, we still know little about the precise nutritional requirements of most bee species. Here, we investigated differences in floral and amino acid profiles of pollen collected by five bumblebee species in southern Germany, which had access to the same spectrum of plant species and thus sources of nutrition. We found that different bumblebee species visited different floral spectra for pollen collection but nevertheless had highly similar pollen amino acid profiles. This finding suggests that common bumblebee species only slightly differ in their nutritional target for amino acids in pollen. In fact, floral and chemical composition of pollen loads appear to be largely determined by the plant community present at a site as bumblebees attempt to maximize site-specific nutrient collection efficiency.bee foraging / insect nutrition / plant-insect interactions / pollen chemistry / resource use

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“…After the start of commercial rearing, the role of pollen in the bumblebee colonies has been investigated in detail. Regali and Rasmont (1995) created an original method using queenless micro-colonies of B. terrestris workers to compare the nutritional quality of 2 mixtures of pollens (low protein content 13% and high protein content 22%) and found that more male progeny were produced by queenless colonies when fed high protein pollen content. Riberio et al (1996) found that queens reared on dried-frozen pollen were smaller, had lower biomass, higher mortality, and produced smaller colonies than queens reared on fresh-frozen pollen.…”

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The Effects of Pollen Protein Content on Colony Development of the Bumblebee, Bombus Terrestris L.

Baloglu

Gürel

2015

Journal of Apicultural Science

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A b s t r a c t The effects of pollen protein content on the colony development of Bombus terrestris were investigated by feeding queens and queenright colonies with four different pollen diets. We used three kinds of commercially available pure pollen (Cistus spp. 11.9%, Papaver somniferum 21.4%, and Sinapis arvensis 21.8% crude protein). We also used a mixture which was made up of equal weights of these pure pollens (18.4 % crude protein). All queens and colonies were fed with sugar syrup and pollen diets ad libitum (28 ± 1 o C, 65 ± 5% RH). Until there were 50 workers reached, colonies fed with the Cistus pollen diet (167.4 ± 28.9 g) consumed signifi cantly more pollen than colonies fed with the Papaver pollen diet (140.7 ± 15.7 g), the mixed pollen diet (136.2 ± 20.1 g) or colonies fed with the Sinapis pollen diet (132.4 ± 22.6 g). The date when there were 50 workers reached was approximately one week later in the colonies fed with the Cistus, and colonies fed with the Papaver diet than in the colonies fed with the Sinapis diet, and for colonies fed with the mixed pollen diets. Considering 8 tested criteria, the best performances were observed using the Sinapis, and using the mixed pollen diets. The lowest performances were observed using the Cistus pollen diet. Results showed that pollen sources play an important role in commercial bumblebee rearing. Results also showed that the polyfl oral pollen diets are more suitable for mass rearing of bumblebees than the unifl oral pollen diets.

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Nouvelles méthodes de test pour l'évaluation du régime alimentaire chez des colonies orphelines de Bombus terrestris (L) (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Cited by 51 publications

References 6 publications

A century of advances in bumblebee domestication and the economic and environmental aspects of its commercialization for pollination

A century of advances in bumblebee domestication and the economic and environmental aspects of its commercialization for pollination

Different but the same: bumblebee species collect pollen of different plant sources but similar amino acid profiles

The Effects of Pollen Protein Content on Colony Development of the Bumblebee, Bombus Terrestris L.

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