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Bombus bifarius

Common names: ...
Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
Roles: pollinator
ITIS TSN: 714787
External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank
Papers: 48 | Mentions: 52

Local Knowledge Graph (41 entities)

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Knowledge graph centered on Bombus bifarius with 41 nodes and 172 connections. Top connected: Unknown, Hummingbird, Bombus, Ipomopsis, Ligusticum porteri.

Publications (48)

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A nectar-inhabiting bacterium may not influence female fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2025Role: text_match
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Nutrient niche dynamics among wild pollinators

2025Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesRole: text_match
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Observing the effects of a nectar-inhabiting bacterium, Pantoea sp., and nectar robbing on male fitness in Ipomopsis aggregata

2025Role: text_match
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Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition

2025Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
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The effect of changing floral density on pollinator networks in a subalpine meadow environment

2025Role: text_match
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Effects of Temperature and Competitor Abundance on Bumble Bee Foraging

2024Role: text_match
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How do Bombus appositus and Bombus bifarius worker tongue lengths vary within a season?

2024Role: text_match
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Pollination Syndrome variance among foraging bumblebee species in Gothic Colorado

2024Role: text_match
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Hot and Cold: Assessing the Thermal Limitations of Bumble Bees in a Changing Climate

2023Role: text_match
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The shifting importance of abiotic and biotic factors across the life cycles of wild pollinators

2022Journal of Animal EcologyRole: text_match
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Within Day Temporal Variation Within Plant-Pollinator Networks

2022Role: text_match
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Effects of climate change on the elevational distribution of bumble bees near Crested Butte, CO: comparing data across 47 years

2021Role: text_match
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Nectar addition changes pollinator behavior but not plant reproduction in pollen rewarding <i> Lupinus argenteus</i>

2021American Journal of BotanyRole: text_match
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Unraveling the ecological and evolutionary impacts of a plant invader on the pollination of a native plant

2021Biological Invasions doi 10.1007/s10530-021-02457-zRole: text_match
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Bumble bees are constant to nectar-robbing behaviour despite low switching costs

2020Animal BehaviourRole: text_match
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Competition for nectar resources does not affect bee foraging tactic constancy

2020Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Temporal flexibility in the structure of plant–pollinator interaction networks

2020OikosRole: text_match
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Untangling the seasonal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities

2020Nature Communications. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17894-yRole: text_match
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What are the bees' needs? Analyzing the diet breadth for three Rocky Mountain Bumble Bees

2020Role: text_match
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Floral reward strategies, visitor behavior, and plant reproductive outcomes

2019Role: text_match
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Invasive plants and water availablity mediate outcomes of plant-pollinator interactions

2019Role: text_match
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Across Caste Variation of Proboscis Length and Within Caste Phenotype Matching of Subalpine Bumble Bees (<i>Bombus spp.</i>)

2018Role: text_match
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Why are some plant-nectar robber interactions commensalisms?

2018OikosRole: text_match
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Do the differing pollen foraging strategies of <i>Megachile sp.</i> and <i>Bombus spp.</i> result in differing pollen removal and deposition rates in <i>Lupinus bakeri</i>?

2017Role: text_match
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Foraging strategy predicts foraging economy in a facultative secondary nectar robber

2017OikosRole: text_match
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Interannual bumble bee abundance is driven by indirect climate effects on floral resource phenology

2017Ecology LettersRole: text_match
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Variability in the effectiveness of <i>Penstemon strictus</i> pollinators and the role that water availability plays

2017Role: text_match
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Do bees show response diversity to environmental variables in a montane ecosystem?

2016Role: text_match
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Does snowmelt timing affect bumble bee colony abundance?

2015Role: text_match
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Fungal Phytopathogens Decrease Plant-Insect Interactions.

2015Role: text_match
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The effects of primary and secondary nectar robbing of Ipomopsis aggregata on hummingbird visitation.

2015Role: text_match
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The influence of aboveground and belowground resources on the persistence of females for a gynodioecious plant

2013Role: text_match
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Plant responses to the joint effects of herbivores and pollinators

2012Role: pollinator
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The effects of floral traits on the behaviors of pollinators and pre-dispersal seed predators in a gynodioecious species, <i>Polemonium foliosissimum</i>.

2012Role: text_match
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Activity and abundance of bumble bees near Crested Butte, CO: diel, seasonal, and elevation effects

2011Ecological EntomologyRole: text_match
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Seasonal change in a pollinator community and the maintenance of style length variation in Mertensia fusiformis (Boraginaceae)

2011Annals of BotanyRole: text_match
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A study of correlational selection through floral manipulations of <i></i>Polemonium foliosissimum<i></i> (Polemoniaceae)

2010Role: text_match
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Consequences of variation in flowering time within and among individuals of <i>Mertensia fusiformis</i> (Boraginaceae), an early spring wildflower

2010Amer J of BotanyRole: text_match
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Plant–Pollinator interactions in a changing climate

2010Role: text_match
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Does stigma-anther separation prevent sexual interference in dwarf bluebells (<i>Mertensia fusiformis</i>)?

2009Role: text_match
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Is there a positive correlation between bee size and size parameters of the flowers the bees visit for pollen to provision their nests?

2009Role: text_match
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Reciprocal benefits in a plant-pollinator mutualism

2008Role: text_match
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Rocky Mountain Bombus pathogen survey: Are invasive plants affecting pathogen prevalence and intensity?

2008Role: text_match
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The effect of sampling effort on species richness estimates of flower visitors

2007Role: text_match
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Effects of nectar robbing on nectar dynamics and bumblebee foraging strategies in Linaria vulgaris

2005OikosRole: text_match
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The ecology of pollination and nectar robbing in Linaria vulgaris in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

2004TSpaceRole: pollinator
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Pollen transfer by hummingbirds and bumblebees, and divergence of pollination modes in <i>Penstemon</i>

2003EvolutionRole: text_match
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Pollen transport and deposition by bumble bees in Erythronium: influences of floral nectar and bee grooming

1986Journal of EcologyRole: text_match