About the Authors

Harmen P. Hendriksma

Contributed equally to this work with: Harmen P. Hendriksma, Meike Küting

Current address: B. Triwaks Bee Research Center, Department of Entomology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Meike Küting

Contributed equally to this work with: Harmen P. Hendriksma, Meike Küting

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Braunschweig, Germany

Stephan Härtel

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Astrid Näther

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Braunschweig, Germany

Anja B. Dohrmann

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Braunschweig, Germany

Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

Affiliation Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocentre, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany

Christoph C. Tebbe

christoph.tebbe@ti.bund.de

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries, Braunschweig, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SH ISD CCT. Performed the experiments: MK HH SH. Analyzed the data: MK HH SH AN, AD. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AN AD ISD, CCT. Wrote the paper: MK HH SH AD AN ISD CCT.