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Molecular Surveillance of Honey Bee Hives Using eDNA Metabarcoding During Pollination Season

Environmental DNA, Volume 7, Issue 6, November–December 2025.
Healthy honey bees are critical in safeguarding our food supply, but monitoring their health may present a significant challenge. Here, we used environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding on bee hive debris and detected species of arthropods, bacteria and fungi contributing to form the bee hive environment, including hive pests and pathogens as well as hive
Jessica Henneken, Francesco Martoni, Alexander Piper, Reannon Smith, Brendan Rodoni   +4 more
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Integrative Genomics Reveals the Genetics and Evolution of the Honey Bee’s Social Immune System [PDF]

, 2019
Social organisms combat pathogens through individual innate immune responses or through social immunity—behaviors among individuals that limit pathogen transmission within groups.
Currie, Rob, Desai, Suresh, Foster, Leonard, Guarna, Maria Marta, Harpur, Brock, Higo, Heather, Hoover, Shelley, Huxter, Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Abdullah, Melathopoulos, Andony, Moon, Kyung-Mee, Pernal, Stephen, Zayed, Amro   +12 more
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‘Disease‐smart’ outcrossing can enhance individual fitness and increase survival via immune priming against pathogens: New approaches to strengthen genetic rescue efforts

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 18, Issue 5, Page 786-797, September 2025.
Our study provides a proof of concept for combining immune priming with assisted migration for insect conservation. Introducing genetically diverse, immune‐primed migrants improves both pathogen resistance and reproductive success in inbred individuals.
Enakshi Ghosh, Matthew Wallace, Ruth A. Hufbauer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Screening the Efficacy of Different Anti-biotics Against American Foulbrood in Jordan [PDF]

مجلة جامعة النجاح للأبحاث العلوم الطبيعية, 2015
American foulbrood disease (AFB) is considered one of the most virulent bacterial diseases of honeybee (Apis mellifera); it has a vital negative impact on the beekeeping industry worldwide.
Nizar Haddad, Fares Khoury, Alaa Tellawi, Noureddine Adjlane   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Landscape‐Wide Metabarcoding Shows Interactions Among the Gut Microbiome and Pollen Diversity in the Invasive Bumblebee, Bombus terrestris

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 7, July 2025.
The study examines how environmental factors and dietary diversity influence the gut microbiome of the invasive European buff‐tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) in Tasmania. We found that gut bacterial composition and diversity were significantly affected by annual precipitation, pasture percentage, temperature and interactions between pollen ...
Sabrina Haque, Hasinika K. A. H. Gamage, Cecilia Kardum Hjort, Fleur Ponton, Francisco Encinas‐Viso, Ian T. Paulsen, Rachael Y. Dudaniec   +6 more
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Functional Properties and Antimicrobial Activity from Lactic Acid Bacteria as Resources to Improve the Health and Welfare of Honey Bees

Insects, 2022
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are agriculturally important pollinators. Over the past decades, significant losses of wild and domestic bees have been reported in many parts of the world.
Massimo Iorizzo, Francesco Letizia, Sonia Ganassi, Bruno Testa, Sonia Petrarca, Gianluca Albanese, Dalila Di Criscio, Antonio De Cristofaro   +7 more
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Diversity of honey stores and their impact on pathogenic bacteria of the honeybee, Apis mellifera [PDF]

, 2014
Honeybee colonies offer an excellent environment for microbial pathogen development. The highest virulent, colony killing, bacterial agents are Paenibacillus larvae causing American foulbrood (AFB), and European foulbrood (EFB) associated bacteria ...
Bobis, Otilia, Denner, Andreas, Erler, Silvio, Forsgren, Eva, Moritz, Robin F. A.   +4 more
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Ecology and Pathogenicity for Honey Bee Brood of Recently Described Paenibacillus melissococcoides and Comparison With Paenibacillus dendritiformis, Paenibacillus thiaminolyticus

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 17, Issue 3, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Honey bee colonies contain thousands of individuals living in close proximity in a thermally homeostatic nest, creating ideal conditions for the thriving of numerous pathogens. Among the bacterial pathogens, Paenibacillus larvae infects larvae via the nutritive jelly that adult workers feed them, causing the highly contagious American ...
Florine Ory, Benjamin Dainat, Oliver Würgler, Fabian Wenger, Alexandra Roetschi, Lauriane Braillard, Jean‐Daniel Charrière, Vincent Dietemann   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Field-Realistic Tylosin Exposure Impacts Honey Bee Microbiota and Pathogen Susceptibility, Which Is Ameliorated by Native Gut Probiotics

Microbiology Spectrum, 2021
Antibiotics have been applied to honey bee (Apis mellifera) hives for decades to treat Paenibacillus larvae, which causes American foulbrood disease and kills honey bee larvae. One of the few antibiotics approved in apiculture is tylosin tartrate.
J. Elijah Powell, Zac Carver, Sean P. Leonard, Nancy A. Moran   +3 more
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Environmental DNA Methods for Detection of Varroa destructor in Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Hives

Environmental DNA, Volume 7, Issue 3, May–June 2025.
The parasitic mite, Varroa destructor, is a worldwide problem for honey bees (Apis mellifera). Using a new species‐specific qPCR assay, we assessed the detection of V. destructor eDNA collected in honey and surface swabs from managed bee hives in Australia, where V. destructor has recently invaded, and in New Zealand, where V. destructor is established.
John M. K. Roberts, Richard J. Hall, Foyez Shams, Francisco Encinas‐Viso, Florence Bravo, Jenn Soroka, Liz Milla, Natale Snape, Francesco Martoni, Antonette Walford, Dianne Gleeson, Alejandro Trujillo‐González   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source