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MacPhail VJ, Hatfield R, Colla SR. Bumble Bee Watch community science program increases scientific understanding of an important pollinator group across Canada and the USA. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0303335. [PMID: 38776282 PMCID: PMC11111064 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0303335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/08/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2024] [Indexed: 05/24/2024] Open
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In a time of increasing threats to bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus), it is important to understand their ecology and distribution. As experts are limited in resources to conduct field surveys, there is potential for community scientists to help. The Bumble Bee Watch (BBW) community science program involves volunteers taking photos of bumble bees in Canada and the USA and submitting them, along with geographic and optional plant information, to a website or through an app. Taxon experts then verify the bee species identification. The Bumble Bees of North America database (BBNA) stores data (no photographs) collected and identified by more traditional scientific methods over the same range. Here we compared BBW data to BBNA data over all years and just 2010-2020 to understand the scientific contribution of community scientists to the state of the knowledge about native bumble bees. We found that BBW had similar geographic and species coverage as BBNA. It had records from all 63 provinces, states, and territories where bumble bees occur (including four more than BBNA in 2010-2020), and represented 41 of the 48 species in BBNA (with ten more species than BBNA in 2010-2020). While BBW contributed only 8.50% of records overall, it contributed 25.06% of all records over 2010-2020. BBW confirmed the persistence of species and identified new locations of species, both inside and outside of the previously known extent of occurrences. BBW also contributed a wealth of ecological information, such as unique plant genera and species data for almost all the bee species. Thus, while BBW had fewer bee records than the BBNA database overall, it helped to fill in data gaps and provided novel information, complementing the traditional methods. This community science program is valuable in helping to inform conservation management for bumble bee species.
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- Victoria J MacPhail
- Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, Oregan, United States of America
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- Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Sheffield C, Palmier KM. Range expansion of Bombus (Pyrobombus) bimaculatus Cresson in Canada (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Biodivers Data J 2023; 11:e104657. [PMID: 37305447 PMCID: PMC10248724 DOI: 10.3897/bdj.11.e104657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/06/2023] [Accepted: 05/12/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2023] Open
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Background The two-spotted bumble bee, Bombusbimaculatus Cresson, 1863 (Hymenoptera, Apidae), is a common species in central North America, with few published records of this species in Canada west of Ontario or east of Quebec. New information Based on recently collected specimens from Saskatchewan and confirmed records posted to iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/) in the past 10 years (i.e. since 2013), we provide evidence that this species has only recently expanded its range in Canada, westwards into the Prairies Ecozone (Manitoba, Saskatchewan) and east into the Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island).
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- Cory Sheffield
- Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, CanadaRoyal Saskatchewan MuseumReginaCanada
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- Department of Biology, University of Regina, Regina, CanadaDepartment of Biology, University of ReginaReginaCanada
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Williams PH, Françoso E, Martinet B, Orr MC, Ren Z, Júnior JS, Thanoosing C, Vandame R. When did bumblebees reach South America? Unexpectedly old montane species may be explained by Mexican stopover (Hymenoptera: Apidae). SYST BIODIVERS 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2022.2092229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/15/2022]
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham TW20 0EX, UK
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- Avenue F.D, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Roosevelt 50, Brussels, B-1050, Belgium
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- Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang, 100101, Beijing, China
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- Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, China
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- Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas, 29290, México
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Potapov GS, Kolosova YS, Kondakov AV, Tomilova AA, Filippov BY, Zubrii NA, Spitsyn VM, Spitsyna EA, Zheludkova AA, Gofarov MY, Bovykina GV, Bolotov IN. Phylogeography and ecology of bumble bees on Kolguev Island, a remote European Arctic landmass. Zookeys 2022; 1122:19-37. [PMID: 36761205 PMCID: PMC9848823 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1122.82993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The bumble bee fauna of the Russian Arctic is rather poorly known. Kolguev Island, a remote insular territory in the Barents Sea, is one of the deficiently studied areas. In this study, material on Kolguev's bumble bees is re-examined, phylogeographic data analysed, putative scenarios explaining the origin of the bumble bee fauna on the island discussed, and the biology and phenology of these insular populations described. Five bumble bee species, i.e., Bombusflavidus, B.lapponicus, B.jonellus, B.pyrrhopygus, and B.balteatus, were recorded on this island. All of these species are widespread throughout the Eurasian Arctic. Bumble bee populations on Kolguev Island are characterised by a low level of molecular divergence from mainland populations. Based on paleogeographic reconstructions and phylogeographic patterns, it is hypothesised that the bumble bees appeared on this island in the Early Holocene. The lack of rodents (lemmings and voles) sharply decreases the number of available nesting places for bumble bees on Kolguev Island.
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- Grigory S. Potapov
- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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- N. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Northern Dvina Emb. 23, Arkhangelsk, 163069, RussiaN. Laverov Federal Center for Integrated Arctic Research of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of SciencesArkhangelskRussia
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Molecular characteristics of Bombus (Alpinobombus) polaris from North Greenland with comments on its general biology and phylogeography. Polar Biol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-021-02952-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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AbstractThe bumble bee Bombus polaris (Curtis 1835) is known from the northernmost region of Greenland. But how it can survive there, where in terms of geographic origin it came from, and which species in addition to B. pyrrhopygus (Friese 1902) genetically it is most closely related to are insufficiently answered questions that have motivated us to carry out this study. On the basis of a molecular analysis of the cytochrome oxidase I gene of a B. (Alpinobombus) polaris from North Greenland (82° 48′ N; 42° 14′ W), we conclude that the female specimen we analysed was most closely related to the Canadian populations of B. polaris. Geographic proximity, occurrence of B. polaris on Ellesmere Island and wind direction are likely factors that have aided B. polaris to establish itself in northern and eastern Greenland. The presence of five haplotypes in the studied sequences from Greenland indicates a moderately high level of genetic diversity of B. polaris in Greenland, reflecting the successful adaptation of B. polaris populations. In the broader context of entomological life in the high Arctic, our results on B. polaris allow us to conclude that the survival of pollinating species in the high Arctic under the changing climate scenario depends not only on the weather but also on an individual’s opportunity to continue to locate suitable food sources, i.e. pollen and nectar in the case of B. polaris. This aspect, briefly touched upon in this study, is of relevance not just to B. polaris, but the Arctic entomofauna generally.
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Potapov GS, Berezin MV, Kolosova YS, Kondakov AV, Tomilova AA, Spitsyn VM, Zheludkova AA, Zubrii NA, Filippov BY, Bolotov IN. The last refugia for a polar relict pollinator: isolates of Bombus glacialis on Novaya Zemlya and Wrangel Island indicate its broader former range in the Pleistocene. Polar Biol 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s00300-021-02912-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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