A new article, the fourth in a row in issue 30/2017, of the international scientific journal Icelandic Agricultural Sciences (IAS) has been published.
This is a short article and in Icelandic it would be called "An examination of the plant selection of bumblebee (Bombus jonellus) in Southwest Iceland". The study was carried out in two places, in Heiðmörk and by Vífilsstaðavatn, in the summer of 2016. In the first half of the summer, the peat bumblebee (honey fly, wild bee fly) was fed mainly on thyme and mountain dandelion, slightly on bluegrass and very little on some other plant species. In the latter part of the summer there was a wider variety of flowering plants and the food choice was not as homogeneous. The peanut butter was mainly eaten on meadow roses, carrion, heather, thyme, dandelion and goldenrod. The study showed a clear difference in the choice of peat bumblebee plants between the early summer and late summer and that it takes advantage of the variety of flowering plants in the late summer.
This interesting article can be accessed at IAS website