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Data and Code: Temperature influences desiccation resistance of bumble bees

Metadata Updated: June 5, 2025

In this experiment, we crossed temperature (20, 25, and 30C) with humidity (95% RH) and measured the effects on bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) water balance. We had 10 replicates per treatment, with 6 source colonies, resulting in a total of 540 bees. We placed bees singly into tubes and checked for mortality every 2 hours for the first 12 hours and then every 4 hours until 5/10 bees from each temperature, humidity, colony treatment had reached mortality (52h and 48h for the two trials). We measured mass before and after mortality to evaluate water loss and then dried bees to a constant dry weight to get the initial water content and dry mass of each bee.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons Attribution

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Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date June 5, 2025

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Harvested from USDA JSON

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date June 5, 2025
Publisher Agricultural Research Service
Maintainer
Identifier 10.15482/USDA.ADC/25345426.v1
Data Last Modified 2025-05-02
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 005:18
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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Harvest Object Id 186a891f-afd4-47e5-8994-ceb693bb4d66
Harvest Source Id d3fafa34-0cb9-48f1-ab1d-5b5fdc783806
Harvest Source Title USDA JSON
License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Program Code 005:040
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 92be17c1e29372c48151f0091bcefcbd7864297209c8a736419fc4418f5ed5db
Source Schema Version 1.1
Temporal 2023-09-28/2023-12-10

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