Quantifying the impact of an invasive hornet on Bombus terrestris colonies
dc.contributor.author | O'Shea-Wheller, TA | |
dc.contributor.author | Curtis, RJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Kennedy, PJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Groom, EKJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Poidatz, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Raffle, DS | |
dc.contributor.author | Rojas-Nossa, SV | |
dc.contributor.author | Bartolomé, C | |
dc.contributor.author | Dasilva-Martins, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Maside, X | |
dc.contributor.author | Mato, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Osborne, JL | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-09-19T10:19:32Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-10-05 | |
dc.date.updated | 2024-09-18T16:39:39Z | |
dc.description.abstract | The invasive hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax is considered a proliferating threat to pollinators in Europe and Asia. While the impact of this species on managed honey bees is well-documented, effects upon other pollinator populations remain poorly understood. Nonetheless, dietary analyses indicate that the hornets consume a diversity of prey, fuelling concerns for at-risk taxa. Here, we quantify the impact of V. velutina upon standardised commercially-reared colonies of the European bumblebee, Bombus terrestris terrestris. Using a landscape-scale experimental design, we deploy colonies across a gradient of local V. velutina densities, utilising automated tracking to non-invasively observe bee and hornet behaviour, and quantify subsequent effects upon colony outcomes. Our results demonstrate that hornets frequently hunt at B. terrestris colonies, being preferentially attracted to those with high foraging traffic, and engaging in repeated-yet entirely unsuccessful-predation attempts at nest entrances. Notably however, we show that B. terrestris colony weights are negatively associated with local V. velutina densities, indicating potential indirect effects upon colony growth. Taken together, these findings provide the first empirical insight into impacts on bumblebees at the colony level, and inform future mitigation efforts for wild and managed pollinators. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 6(1), article 990 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05329-5 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | BB/S015523/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | EAPA_800/2018 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/137491 | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-5537-2659 (O'Shea-Wheller, Thomas A) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-2999-7823 (Kennedy, Peter J) | |
dc.identifier | ORCID: 0000-0002-9937-172X (Osborne, Juliet L) | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37798331 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2023. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.title | Quantifying the impact of an invasive hornet on Bombus terrestris colonies | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2024-09-19T10:19:32Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2399-3642 | |
exeter.article-number | 990 | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: The authors declare that all supporting data is available within the supplementary information. For source data underlying the figures and analyses, see (Supplementary Data). | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2399-3642 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Communications Biology | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2023-09-07 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2023-10-05 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2024-09-19T10:17:10Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2024-09-19T10:22:45Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2023-10-05 |
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