G. Chavarria, NOTES ON A COMBINED NEST OF BOMBUS-PULLATUS (HYMENOPTERA, APIDAE) ANDACROMYRMEX-OCTOSPINOSUS (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE), Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 69(4), 1996, pp. 403-405
This paper describes an active nest of Bombus pullatus Franklin from C
osta Rica that had a colony of leafcutter ants Acromyrmex octospinosus
(Reich) build a fungus garden in the old abandoned cells of the bumbl
e bee nest. Such associations between bumble bee and ant nests have no
t been reported previously.