Figure 3
Estimated mean numbers of plants predicted to be visited by bumblebee species when assessing an increasingly large number of records. (a) mean number of plant species predicted to be used by each of the seven ‘common’ UK true bumblebee species; (b) mean number of plant species predicted to be used by each of six ‘rarer’ UK true bumblebee species. Results were generated using data gathered from the citizen science programme BeeWatch, where 10 plant choices were randomly sub-sampled, without replacement, using 100 repeats of the procedure. Predictions for bumblebee species which had less than 10 records, i.e. the brown-banded carder and the red-shanked carder bees and the ruderal bumblebee, were unable to be made.
