Winter active bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) achieve high foraging rates in urban Britain

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Stelzer, Ralph J ^a   Chittka, Lars ^a   Carlton, Marc ^b   Ings, Thomas C ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLOWERING; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; MAHONIA; MALE; NECTAR; NONHUMAN; UNITED KINGDOM; WINTER; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BEE; BEHAVIOR; CITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; MAHONIA;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CITIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GREAT BRITAIN; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77949725030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009559     Document Type: Article

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