ena-STUDY-University of Milan-Bicocca-22-06-2018-23:26:57:134-1053
DNA metabarcoding reveals a constancy in the foraging strategy of bumblebees
In this study, commercial colonies of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris wereexperimentally manipulated by removing half of the workers, in order to investigateconsequent changes in foraging strategies and bumblebee-plant networks. Before andafter the manipulation, pollen pellets were collected from the individual workers aftertheir foraging trips. The manipulated colonies were compared with untreated ones inthe same period.
In this study, commercial colonies of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris wereexperimentally manipulated by removing half of the workers, in order to investigateconsequent changes in foraging strategies and bumblebee-plant networks. Before andafter the manipulation, pollen pellets were collected from the individual workers aftertheir foraging trips. The manipulated colonies were compared with untreated ones inthe same period.