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, 1993 Various saturated and unsaturated free fatty acids were tested for their antibiotic activity against Bacillus larvae, the causative agent of American foulbrood disease of honey bee larvae.
H. Shimanuki +6 more
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Honey Bee Colony Health in Thiamethoxam‐Treated Sugar Beet Fields: A Field‐Based Case Study
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 12, December 2025.Using multi‐site field trials during Germany's 2021 emergency authorization of thiamethoxam‐treated sugar beet, we combined colony demography and residue analyses with complementary worker survival assays to characterize honey bee exposure under realistic conditions.
Richard Odemer +3 more
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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 +4 more
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Phage Therapy Against Foulbrood Disease in Honey Bees
, 2022 Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are the most important pollinator species in agriculture. The pollination performed by managed honey bees is essential to meet food production requirements.
Van Leuven, James +2 more
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Inducible versus constitutive social immunity: examining effects of colony infection on glucose oxidase and defensin-1 production in honeybees [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Honeybees use a variety of defence mechanisms to reduce disease infection and spread throughout the colony. Many of these defences rely on the collective action of multiple individuals to prevent, reduce or eradicate pathogens—often referred to as ...
Margarita M. López-Uribe +2 more
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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 +2 more
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The dilemma of honey bee pest management in European Union: eradication or coexistence?
Insect Science, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 2235-2238, October 2026.
Michela Bertola, Franco Mutinelli
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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 +6 more
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Amerikanische Faulbrut der Honigbienen – American foulbrood [PDF]
, 2014 With 230 affected apiaries the number of outbreaks of American foulbrood (AFB) in Germany in 2013 was below the average over the last 18 years (ø = 294).
Schäfer, Marc Oliver
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, 2018 The bacteria Melissococcus plutonius and Paenibacillus larvae, causative agents of respectively European and American foulbrood, damage honeybee health worldwide.
Grossar, D. +11 more
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