Difference in pollen specialisation in spring bees Andrena vaga (Andrenidae) and Colletes cunicularius (Colletidae) during their nesting season

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023272:_____/22:10135628 RIV/60076658:12310/22:43904844 RIV/00216208:11310/22:10457353 RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126668

Result on the web

<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11829-022-09910-3" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11829-022-09910-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11829-022-09910-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11829-022-09910-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Difference in pollen specialisation in spring bees Andrena vaga (Andrenidae) and Colletes cunicularius (Colletidae) during their nesting season

Original language description

Andrena vaga and Colletes cunicularius are solitary bees distributed in Europe in regions with sandy substrate. They both nest in large aggregations and often together. Both species occur in early spring and collect pollen usually from willows (Salix). We studied the pollen loads carried into nests by females of both species during the whole nesting season in one locality (Lazne Bohdanec, Czech Republic). Additional material was collected in 24 other localities but usually not during the whole nesting season. The results showed that Andrena vaga is monolectic on Salix but C. cunicularius collected 11 pollen types, and one type usually dominated in each pollen load. The pollen of Salix represented 60% or more, especially in the second half of the nesting season, when was collected less frequently. Although C. cunicularius is certainly polylectic, individual specialisation to one pollen type was revealed during foraging bouts. The pollen diet of C. cunicularius partly corresponded with other polylectic bees in the studied locality. The main difference was pollen of Taraxacum (Cichorioideae), which was the most represented pollen type in pollen loads of polylectic bees but nearly absent in pollen loads of C. cunicularius. Andrena vaga is probably behaviourally specialised on pollen collected on Salix only and is unable to collect pollen from flowers of other plants, contrary to C. cunicularius.

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

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Arthropod-Plant Interactions

ISSN

1872-8855

e-ISSN

1872-8847

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

459-467

UT code for WoS article

000849443500003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85137465798