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foundress queen life stage

Scope: population ecology
Papers: 1 | Mentions: 1

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Knowledge graph centered on foundress queen life stage with 8 nodes and 14 connections. Top connected: lifetime reproductive success, foraging efficiency, Trap-nest sampling (Megachilidae), PIT tag telemetry, trap-nesting.

Definition

The early nest-founding period when solitary queens establish and provision nests before worker emergence

Related Terms (2)

foundress stagenest-founding

Publications (1)

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Wild foundress queen bumble bees make numerous, short foraging trips and exhibit frequent nest failure: Insights from trap-nesting and RFID tracking

2025Ecology and Evolutioncentral

Related Concepts (4)

lifetime reproductive success

metric1 shared paper

PIT tag telemetry

measurement1 shared paper

foraging efficiency

measurement1 shared paper

trap-nesting

framework1 shared paper