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a. Location of the bumblebee nest that was relocated; circle shows the nest entrance; b. B. pauloensis nest showing fly larvae (I), bumblebees (II), and beetles (III).
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Bumblebees are important natural pollinators due to their services to wild and cultivated plants. They commonly nest in cavities in the ground where they are exposed to numerous organisms or interact with them. One Bombus pauloensis nest in the Sabana of Bogotá (Colombia) was transferred to an artificial nest and relocated close to a honeybee apiar...
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... collected and relocated a B. pauloensis nest that was found in a field, on the slope of a deep drainage ditch on the Thomas van der Hammen Natural Reserve in the Sabana of Bogotá (Colombia) (4° 48' 10.36" N; 74° 03' 03.45" W) (Figure 1a). Relocation of the nest was necessary because landscape workers were afraid of being stung and set fire to the nest to eliminate the colony. ...
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Beetles of the genus Antherophagus are phoretic organisms that inhabit the nests of Bombus species. They migrate and colonize new nests using the same bumblebees as carriers. Although Antherophagus beetles from temperate Europe and North America are known to use some plant species to move between bumblebees, it is unknown which plants are used as transfer stations by neotropical Antherophagus. Here, we report for the first time how phoretic Antherophagus beetles of an undescribed species use the inflorescences of Chuquiraga jussieui to transfer between individuals of Bombus funebris in the páramos of Central Ecuador. Our observations are the highest records (at 4200 m asl) of a phoretic interaction performed so far.
The genus Caenoscelis C. G. Thomson includes 31 species spread throughout the Palearctic realm, New World, and Ethiopia, but only a single species, Caenoscelis sibirica Reitter, has been recorded in the Korean Peninsula to this point. This study reports two additional species, Caenoscelis koreanus Shin, Park, Lee, and Park, new species and Caenoscelis ferruginea (C. R. Sahlberg), in the Korean Peninsula. Illustrations of their habitus, male genitalia, and diagnostic characters, as well as collection localities and a key to the Korean Caenoscelis species, are provided.
