October 22, 2023

Some asisatic bumblebees have special mandibles for nectar robbing

New findings about Asian bees from the Himalayan region that have specialized in nectar robbing with special mandibles:

https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2283

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=294519123425428&set=a.103733899170619

Posted on October 22, 2023 06:49 PM by frank007 frank007 | 0 comments | Leave a comment

September 25, 2022

About this project

The project was created on 09/24/2022. Open to all observations of bees robbing nectar worldwide.
iNaturalist already has an observation field:
"Robbing Nectar: Yes".
On 09/25/2022 there were 229 hits in this area on iNaturalist worldwide.
I went through all of these hits and only added the hits to the project where you could clearly see that the bee is clearly not entering through the interior of the flower to the nectar source of the flower.

Many thanks also to Robert Zimmermann @robertzimmermann who supported me in this project-side.

Posted on September 25, 2022 12:09 PM by frank007 frank007 | 0 comments | Leave a comment

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