{"id":33,"date":"2023-02-17T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2024-11-29T11:16:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T16:16:44","slug":"clover-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/research\/clover-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumble bee survey of Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"fullwidth\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"width: 300px\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2136\/2023\/02\/Clover-Project.jpg\" alt=\"\">From 2019-2021, 9,546 bumble bees of eight species were observed or collected at 111 survey sites in Rhode Island. The most abundant species was <em>B. impatiens<\/em> (6,483), followed by <em>B. griseocollis<\/em> (1,431),<em> B. bimaculatus<\/em> (1,031), <em>B. vagans<\/em>\/<em>sandersoni<\/em> (308), <em>B. perplexus<\/em> (208), <em>B. fervidus<\/em> (40), <em>B. vagans<\/em> (22), <em>B. sandersoni<\/em> (13), <em>B. auricomus <\/em>Robertson (1 \u2013 a new state record). Among the 12 historical <em>Bombus<\/em> species documented from Rhode Island, <em>B<\/em>.<em> affinis<\/em> Cresson, <em>B. citrinus<\/em> Smith, <em>B. pensylvanicus<\/em> DeGeer, <em>B. ternarius<\/em> Say, or <em>B. terricola<\/em> Kirby were not found in our survey, suggesting rarity or current absence. <em>Bombus<\/em> species richness was highest on <em>Monarda fistulosa<\/em> L., <em>Trifolium pratense<\/em> L., and <em>Lavandula angustifolia<\/em> Mill, and <em>M. fistulosa<\/em> had the highest bee visitations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2019-2021, 9,546 bumble bees of eight species were observed or collected at 111 survey sites in Rhode Island. The most abundant species was B. impatiens (6,483), followed by B. griseocollis (1,431), B. bimaculatus (1,031), B. vagans\/sandersoni (308), B. perplexus (208), B. fervidus (40), B. vagans (22), B. sandersoni (13), B. auricomus Robertson (1 \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":52,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/599"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/beelab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}