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  • Ecology
  • Animal Behavior
  • Pollination Biology

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  • Bees often exhibit flower constancy, focusing on specific plant species during foraging.
  • Long-term flower constancy and its variability under changing resource conditions remain understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate long-term flower constancy in Bombus terrestris colonies.
  • To analyze changes in individual and colony-level pollen diversity over time.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of pollen diets from nine Bombus terrestris colonies over six weeks.
  • Tracking individual bee foraging consistency and pollen diversity across multiple sampling occasions.

Main Results:

  • Only 23% of observed pollen foraging trips demonstrated flower constancy.
  • Individual bee pollen preferences changed over time, with decreasing similarity in samples.
  • Colony-level pollen diversity was significantly higher than individual foraging trip diversity.

Conclusions:

  • Bombus terrestris exhibits dynamic rather than fixed flower preferences, adapting to shifting floral resources.
  • Future research should explore the speed of preference changes and species-specific variations.