Bombus lapidarius

Isol. from the heads of male bumblebees Bombus lapidarius. Pheromone for many insect spp. 

Agren, L. (1975) Fine structure of the thoracic salivary gland of male Bombus lapidarius L. (Hymenoptera, Apidae). Zoon, 3, 19-31. 

Similarly, bumblebee populations have been on a considerable decline. Recently, species of AAB were identified in bumblebees as relevant bacteria of the gut microbiota (Cariveau et al. 2014), and in a recent pubhcation, Asaia astilbes, Commensalibacter intestini, and the newly described species Bombella apicola were isolated from bumblebees (Li et al. 2014). The type strain of Bombella apicola isolated from the red-tailed bumblebee Bombus lapidarius had a 96.5 % similarity with S. floricola on the 16S rRNA gene (Li et al. 2014). 

Small initial nests of the bumblebee Bombus lapidarius were translocated from the outside into a calorimetric (cooling) box as described in detail above (section 3.5.) placed in the basement of the institute [67,68]. The queen and a few already... 

Bombus B. agrorum B. callumanus B. cingulatus B. derhamellus B. hortorium B. hypnorum B. jonellus B. lapidarius B. lapponicus (blond) B. lapponicus (dark)... 

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