Fructose-associated Fructobacillus in the gut microbiome of bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) inhabiting natural forest meadows and agricultural landscape

Taxonomic summary of the bacterial community of bumblebee gut microbiome: Commercially produced colonies of buff-tailed bumblebees (<em>Bombus terrestris</em>) were placed in three habitats. Whole guts (midgut, hindgut, and rectum) of <em>B. terrestris</em> specimens were dissected from the body and analyzed using 16S phylogenetic community analysis. We observed significantly different bacterial community composition between the agricultural landscapes (apple orchards and oilseed rape (<em>Brassica napus</em>) fields) and forest meadows, whereas differences in gut communities between the orchards and oilseed rape fields were nonsignificant.