The Effect of Foraging on Bumble Bees, Bombus terrestris, Reared under Laboratory Conditions

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F26296080%3A_____%2F20%3AN0000014" target="_blank" >RIV/26296080:_____/20:N0000014 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216224:14310/20:00114827

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341621021_The_Effect_of_Foraging_on_Bumble_Bees_Bombus_terrestris_Reared_under_Laboratory_Conditions" target="_blank" >https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341621021_The_Effect_of_Foraging_on_Bumble_Bees_Bombus_terrestris_Reared_under_Laboratory_Conditions</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects11050321" target="_blank" >10.3390/insects11050321</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Effect of Foraging on Bumble Bees, Bombus terrestris, Reared under Laboratory Conditions

Original language description

Bumble bees are important pollinators broadly used by farmers in greenhouses and under conditions in which honeybee pollination is limited. As such, bumble bees are increasingly being reared for commercial purposes, which brings into question whether individuals reared under laboratory conditions are fully capable of physiological adaptation to field conditions. To understand the changes in bumble bee organism caused by foraging, we compared the fundamental physiological and immunological parameters of Bombus terrestris workers reared under constant optimal laboratory conditions with workers from sister colonies that were allowed to forage for two weeks in the field. Nutritional status and immune response were further determined in wild foragers of B. terrestris that lived under the constant influence of natural stressors. Both wild and laboratory-reared workers subjected to the field conditions had a lower protein concentration in the hemolymph and increased antimicrobial activity, the detection of which was limited in the non-foragers. However, in most of the tested parameters, specifically the level of carbohydrates, antioxidants, total hemocyte concentration in the hemolymph and melanization response, we did not observe any significant differences between bumble bee workers produced in the laboratory and wild animals, nor between foragers and non-foragers. Our results show that bumble bees reared under laboratory conditions can mount a sufficient immune response to potential pathogens and cope with differential food availability in the field, similarly to the wild bumble bee workers.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10616 - Entomology

Project

<a href="/en/project/QK1910286" target="_blank" >QK1910286: Effective procedures and strategies for managing of honey bee diseases and sustainable bee keeping</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

INSECTS

ISSN

2075-4450

e-ISSN

2075-4450

Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

321

UT code for WoS article

000541085300047

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85085566936