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Apis mellifera

Common names: honey bee, honey-bee, honeybees

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae

Roles: study subject, reference species, pollinator

ITIS TSN: 154396

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 123 | Mentions: 139

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 72 entities)

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Publications (123)

student_paper

A nectar-inhabiting bacterium may not influence female fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2025Role: text_match

thesis

Dimensions of difference: Multi-scale consequences of trait variation in bumble bees

2025Role: text_match

article

Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

2025OikosRole: text_match

article

Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2025Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

article

Improving plant DNA metabarcoding accuracy with ecological filters and Angiosperms353: Field and pollen microscopy validation

2025Applications in Plant SciencesRole: text_match

article

Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

2025Role: text_match

article

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

Co-occurring Species

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

student_paper

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

2025Role: text_match

article

Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

2025Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

article

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

2025Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

article

Wild foundress queen bumble bees make numerous, short foraging trips and exhibit frequent nest failure: Insights from trap-nesting and RFID tracking

2025Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

Does Floral Nectar Depth Correlate With Pollinator Proboscis Length?

2024Role: text_match

thesis

Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

2024Role: study subject

article

The hole truth: why do bumble bees rob flowers more than once?

2024PlantsRole: text_match

student_paper

In your stomach or in your nectar? Disentangling the effects of two pollination-related yeasts on bumblebee behavior and foraging

2023Role: text_match

student_paper

Plant Bioassay Testing Soil Quality Following Carrion Insect Activity

2023Role: text_match

thesis

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

2023Role: text_match

article

The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies

2023Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

thesis

Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

2022Role: text_match

article

Carry-over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar-feeding butterfly

2022Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Comparison of Bee Bowls and Netting for Monitoring Native Bees

2022Role: text_match

article

Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation

2022Environmental Entomology Role: text_match

article

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

2022Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match

thesis

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

2022Role: text_match

article

Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

2022EcosphereRole: text_match

article

Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought

2022OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

Sweet and salty: Pollinators and sodium-enriched nectar

2022Role: text_match

article

The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

2022Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match

article

Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

2021Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match

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Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

2021Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match

article

Diverse cressdnaviruses and an anellovirus identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots

2021VirologyRole: text_match

article

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

2021Climate Change EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

2021Role: text_match

article

Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

2021OecologiaRole: text_match

thesis

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

2021Role: text_match

article

The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing

2021Frontiers in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

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Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

2021Biological ReviewsRole: text_match

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Understanding Organismal Capacity to Respond to Anthropogenic Change: Barriers and Solutions

2021Integrative and Comparative BiologyRole: text_match

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Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

2021OecologiaRole: text_match

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Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

2020Ecology LettersRole: text_match

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Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

2020Frontiers in Plant Science. doi 10.3389/fpls.2020.590347Role: text_match

article

Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs

2020Animal BehaviourRole: text_match

student_paper

Butterfly foraging and the dispersal of microbes among & within flowers

2020Role: text_match

article

Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Flying by night: Comparing crepuscular pollinator networks across two sites in Western North America

2020Role: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

2020Role: text_match

article

Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

2020Biological Conservation doi 10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108821Role: text_match

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Untangling the seasonal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities

2020Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17894-yRole: text_match

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Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match

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No evidence that gut microbiota impose a net cost on their butterfly host

2019Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

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Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

2019American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Stoichiometry and infectious disease: Linking chemical elements and parasitic interactions

2019Role: text_match

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Consistent shifts in pollinator-relevant floral coloration along a Rocky Mountain elevation gradient

2018Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Evaluating Critical Thermal Tolerances of Solitary Bees

2018Role: text_match

thesis

Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

2018Role: reference species

student_paper

Nesting Preferences of Osmia Bees in the Rocky Mountains

2018Role: text_match

other

40 years of progress in pollination biology, and what it means for citizen scientists

2017Aquilegia: Newsletter of the Colorado Native Plant SocietyRole: text_match

article

Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

2017EcologyRole: text_match

article

Diversification of Type VI Secretion System Toxins Reveals Ancient Antagonism among Bee Gut Microbes

2017mBioRole: text_match

article

Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

2017Journal of EcologyRole: text_match

article

Foraging strategy predicts foraging economy in a facultative secondary nectar robber

2017OikosRole: text_match

article

Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match

article

Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities

2017Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match

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Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match

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Metabolism of toxic sugars by the bee gut symbiont Gilliamella apicola

2017mBioRole: text_match

thesis

Plant-Pollinator Interactions and Environmental Change: Effects of Experimental Changes in Phenology and Water Availability on a Montane Wildflower

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee Hoplitis fulgida

2017Role: text_match

student_paper

Variability in the effectiveness of Penstemon strictus pollinators and the role that water availability plays

2017Role: text_match

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Asteraceae pollen provisions protect Osmia mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism

2016American NaturalistRole: text_match

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Competitive context drives pollinator behavior: linking foraging plasticity, natural pollen deposition, and plant reproduction.

2016Role: text_match

student_paper

Do bees show response diversity to environmental variables in a montane ecosystem?

2016Role: text_match

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Nesting aggregation as a determinant of brood parasitism in mason bees (Osmia spp.)

2016Role: text_match

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Strain diversity and host specificity in a specialized gut symbiont of honeybees and bumblebees

2016Molecular EcologyRole: text_match

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Context-dependent reproductive isolation mediated by floral scent and color

2015EvolutionRole: text_match

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Effects of increased flight on the energetics and life history of the butterfly Speyeria mormonia

2015PLoS OneRole: text_match

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The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity

2015Methods in Ecology and EvolutionRole: text_match

student_paper

The effects of primary and secondary nectar robbing of Ipomopsis aggregata on hummingbird visitation.

2015Role: text_match

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The evolutionary ecology of ultraviolet floral pigmentation

2015Role: text_match

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Nectar Yeasts in the Tall Larkspur Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae) and Effects on Components of Pollinator Foraging Behavior

2014PloS oneRole: text_match

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Stimulation of flower nectar replenishment by removal: a survey of eleven animal-pollinated plant species

2014Journal of Pollination EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Exploring within season temporal variation in plant-pollinator interactions in sub-alpine meadows using weekly pollination interaction networks

2013Role: text_match

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Maintenance of temporal synchrony between syrphid flies and floral resources despite differential phenological responses to climate

2013Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

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Norditerpene alkaloid concentrations in tissues and floral rewards of larkspurs and impacts on pollinators

2013Biochemical Systematics and EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Quantifying the effects of pollen load and heterospecific pollen ratio on the species Delphinium barbeyi (Ranunculaceae)

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Spatial variation in bee abundance and diversity across southern Rocky Mountain habitats

2013Role: text_match

student_paper

Assessing the impacts of long-term pan trapping on native bee populations in sub-alpine ecosystems

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

There's no place like home: Investigating the ideal nesting requirements of Megachilidae bees in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

2012Role: text_match

student_paper

A comparative study of plant species diversity on three historic mining sites

2011Role: text_match

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An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows

2011Ecological MonographsRole: text_match

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Butterflies show flower colour preferences but not constancy in foraging at four plant species

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match

chapter

Honey Bee Colony Health: Challenges and Sustainable Solutions

2011Role: text_match

student_paper

Bee sampling has no effect on bee abundance in montane meadows

2010Role: text_match

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Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: study subject

article

Effects of flowering plant density on pollinator visitation, pollen receipt, and seed production in Delphinium barbeyi

2009American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Nectar sugar limits larval growth of solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

2009Environmental EntomologyRole: text_match

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The effects of mine disturbance and contamination on pollination of subalpine wildflowers

2009Role: pollinator

article

The importance of interannual variation and bottom-up nitrogen enrichment for plant-pollinator networks

2009OikosRole: text_match

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Understanding insect life histories and senescence through a resource allocation lens

2009Functional EcologyRole: text_match

student_paper

Variation in the structure and dynamics of bee assemblages across distinct montane meadows

2009Role: text_match

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Bottom-up effects of nutrient enrichment on plants, pollinators, and their interactions

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Effect of Soil Metals on Pollination of Subalpine Wildflowers

2008Role: text_match

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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match

student_paper

Changing distributions, changing climate: Using Bombus as an indicator of global warming near Crested Butte, Colorado

2007Role: text_match

student_paper

Pollination subsidies between wetland and dry meadow habitats

2007Role: text_match

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Predicting the effects of nectar robbing on plant reproduction: implications of pollen limitation and plant mating system

2007American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match

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Floral larceny: Implications, resistance, and the potential for tolerance

2006Role: text_match

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Effects of nectar robbing on nectar dynamics and bumblebee foraging strategies in Linaria vulgaris

2005OikosRole: text_match

student_paper

The effects of Castilleja miniata's parasitic relationship with Delphinium nuttallianum on pollinator visitation and pollination success

2005Role: text_match

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Temperature regulation in burying beetles (Nicrophorus spp.: Coleoptera: Silphidae): effects of body size, morphology and environmental temperature

2004The Journal of Experimental BiologyRole: text_match

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The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: pollinator

thesis

The structure of plant-pollinator interactions in montane meadow environments

2004Role: text_match

article

Pollen transfer by hummingbirds and bumblebees, and divergence of pollination modes in Penstemon

2003EvolutionRole: text_match

article

Volatile production by the buds and corollas of two sympatric, confamial plants, Ipomopsis aggregata and Polemonium foliosissimum

2002Journal of Chemical EcologyRole: text_match

article

Are nectar robbers cheaters or mutualists?

2000EcologyRole: text_match

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Consequences of nectar robbing for realized male function in a hummingbird-pollinated plant

2000EcologyRole: text_match

article

The evolution of functionally referential alarm communication: multiple adaptations; multiple constraints

1999Evolution of CommunicationRole: text_match

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Nectar Robbing in Ipomopsis aggregata: Effects on Pollinator Behavior and Plant Fitness

1998OecologiaRole: text_match

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Solitary behavior in a high-altitude population of the social sweat bee Halictus rubicundus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

1996Behav Ecol SociobiolRole: text_match

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Hypothesis concerning the causes of the disappearance of boreal toads from the mountains of Colorado

1993Conservation BiologyRole: text_match

article

Heterogeneity among floral visitors leads to discordance between removal and deposition of pollen

1991EcologyRole: text_match

article

Bumblebee response to variation in nectar availability

1981EcologyRole: text_match

Apis mellifera

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 72 entities)

Publications (123)

A nectar-inhabiting bacterium may not influence female fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

Dimensions of difference: Multi-scale consequences of trait variation in bumble bees

Fitness costs and benefits of a non-native floral resource for subalpine solitary bees

Flying by night: Comparing nocturnal pollinator networks over time in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Improving plant DNA metabarcoding accuracy with ecological filters and Angiosperms353: Field and pollen microscopy validation

Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

Quantifying ethanol in bumble bee honey and Colorado rocky mountain wildflowers

Shorter seasonal snow cover poses a risk to solitary bee populations in a mountainous ecosystem

Co-occurring Species

Bombus

Bombus terrestris

Bombus impatiens

Bombus vosnesenskii

B. appositus

Bombus appositus

B. vosnesenskii

B. rufocinctus

Osmia

Osmiini

Temperature and relative humidity effects on nectar quantity, nectar quality, and plant-pollinator interactions

Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

Up high, hot and dry: Individual reproductive output in subalpine bees declines with increasing drought severity

Wild foundress queen bumble bees make numerous, short foraging trips and exhibit frequent nest failure: Insights from trap-nesting and RFID tracking

Does Floral Nectar Depth Correlate With Pollinator Proboscis Length?

Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

Solitary bee genera differ in foraging activity timing and temperature; Evidence of a seasonal dietary shift in Hoplitis fulgida

The hole truth: why do bumble bees rob flowers more than once?

In your stomach or in your nectar? Disentangling the effects of two pollination-related yeasts on bumblebee behavior and foraging

Plant Bioassay Testing Soil Quality Following Carrion Insect Activity

The causes and consequences of pollen defence

The dispersal of microbes among and within flowers by butterflies

Bumble bee queen plasticity and social regulation of traits

Carry-over effects of larval food stress on adult energetics and life history in a nectar-feeding butterfly

Comparison of Bee Bowls and Netting for Monitoring Native Bees

Ecological Drivers and Consequences of Bumble Bee Body Size Variation

Life-history traits predict responses of wild bees to climate variation

Perturbations in plant-pollinator networks: Integrating theoretical and empirical approaches to understand responses to global change

Removing flowers of a generalist plant changes pollinator visitation, composition, and interaction network structure

Simultaneous niche expansion and contraction in plant–pollinator networks under drought

Sweet and salty: Pollinators and sodium-enriched nectar

The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee <i> Halictus rubicundus </i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Chemical Variation among Castes, Female Life Stages and Populations of the Facultative Eusocial Sweat Bee <i> Halictus rubicundus </i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

Diverse cressdnaviruses and an anellovirus identified in the fecal samples of yellow-bellied marmots

From the ground up: Building predictions for how climate change will affect belowground mutualisms, floral traits, and bee behavior

Nectar Variation in Simple and Compound Flowers; and its Effects on Plant Pollinator Interactions

Plant–pollinator interaction niche broadens in response to severe drought perturbations

The effects of anthropogenic change on pollination in plant-pollinator communities

The sensory and cognitive ecology of nectar robbing

Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions

Understanding Organismal Capacity to Respond to Anthropogenic Change: Barriers and Solutions

Understanding pollen specialization in mason bees: a case study of six species

Bee phenology is predicted by climatic variation and functional traits

Birds Perceive More Intraspecific Color Variation in Bird-Pollinated Than Bee-Pollinated Flowers

Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs

Butterfly foraging and the dispersal of microbes among & within flowers

Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy

Flying by night: Comparing crepuscular pollinator networks across two sites in Western North America

Quantifying Nectar Trait Responses to Natural Variation in Water Availability in Subalpine Plant Communities

Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees

Untangling the seasonal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities

Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

No evidence that gut microbiota impose a net cost on their butterfly host

Pollen and vegetative secondary chemistry of three pollen-rewarding lupines

Stoichiometry and infectious disease: Linking chemical elements and parasitic interactions

Consistent shifts in pollinator-relevant floral coloration along a Rocky Mountain elevation gradient

Evaluating Critical Thermal Tolerances of Solitary Bees

Examining the impact of pollen diet composition on bee development and lifespan

Nesting Preferences of Osmia Bees in the Rocky Mountains

40 years of progress in pollination biology, and what it means for citizen scientists

Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

Diversification of Type VI Secretion System Toxins Reveals Ancient Antagonism among Bee Gut Microbes

Facilitated exploitation of pollination mutualisms: fitness consequences for plants

Foraging strategy predicts foraging economy in a facultative secondary nectar robber

Interaction rewiring and the rapid turnover of plant-pollinator networks

Interactions between bee foraging and floral resource phenology shape bee populations and communities

Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology