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Osmia cornuta Is a More Suitable Managed Pollinator for Cherry and Apple Orchards Than Osmia bicornis

Journal of Applied Entomology, Volume 149, Issue 4, Page 524-535, May 2025.
ABSTRACT Managed crop pollination strongly relies on the honeybee Apis mellifera and the bumblebee Bombus terrestris, which is risky, may impact wild pollinator communities and does not always give the best pollination outcomes. The mason bees Osmia cornuta and Osmia bicornis are increasingly used as alternative crop pollinators, but it is not clear ...
Laurie Magnin, Felix Bianchi, Steffen Hagenbucher   +2 more
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The smell of infection: Disease surveillance in insects using volatile organic compounds

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 81-89, February 2025.
Abstract Insects play crucial roles in nearly every ecosystem and provide a wide array of ecosystem services. However, both managed and wild insect populations face threats from parasites and pathogens, which require surveillance to mitigate. Current infectious disease surveillance methods for insects often involve invasive, time‐consuming and ...
Ayman Asiri, Sarah E. Perkins, Carsten T. Müller   +2 more
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What proteomics has taught us about honey bee (Apis mellifera) health and disease

PROTEOMICS, Volume 25, Issue 1-2, January 2025.
Abstract The Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, is currently navigating a gauntlet of environmental pressures, including the persistent threat of parasites, pathogens, and climate change – all of which compromise the vitality of honey bee colonies.
Maor Arad, Kenneth Ku, Connor Frey, Rhien Hare, Alison McAfee, Golfam Ghafourifar, Leonard J. Foster   +6 more
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Pathogen and Hemocyte Dynamics in Three Apiaries Across a Bee Season

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, Volume 2025, Issue 1, 2025.
Honey bees are dying due to a disease complex consisting of viruses, parasites, chemicals, nutritional deficiencies, and management problems. In the present study, pathogens and hemocytes were analyzed in honey bee hemolymph samples using third‐generation sequencing and flow cytometry in three apiaries over a honey bee season. Using nanopore sequencing,
Cato Van Herzele, Sieglinde Coppens, Sebastiaan Theuns, Lina De Smet, Jolien Van Cleemput, Dirk C. de Graaf, Hans Nauwynck, Nan-hua Chen   +7 more
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Diagnostic study on major honeybee disease, pests and predators in North Western Ethiopia

Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 10, Issue 5, September 2024.
Pests and predators are causing 55.8% of colony dwindling, 19.7% of absconding, 13.2% of death and 11.4% of honey loss in Pawe, Jawi and Fagita Lekoma districts. Abstract Background The study was conducted in Pawe district from Benishangul‐Gumuz and Jawi and Fagita Lekoma districts from the Amhara region to investigate major honeybee pests, predators ...
Esubalew Shitaneh, Habtie Arega, Amssalu Bezabeh   +2 more
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Pharmacological approach to control American foulbrood of honeybees.

Folia Pharmacologica Japonica, 1997
In this review, I will describe honeybee biology from my prospective as a veterinary pharmacologist and will provide a summary of my research project to search for effective drugs to control American foulbrood, a bacterial disease of honeybees. In conclusion, mirosamicin, a macrolide antibiotic, as a preventive and glutaral, an alkylating agent, as a ...
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Understanding bacterial pathogen diversity: A proteogenomic analysis and use of an array of genome assemblies to identify novel virulence factors of the honey bee bacterial pathogen Paenibacillus larvae

PROTEOMICS, Volume 24, Issue 14, July 2024.
Abstract Mass spectrometry proteomics data are typically evaluated against publicly available annotated sequences, but the proteogenomics approach is a useful alternative. A single genome is commonly utilized in custom proteomic and proteogenomic data analysis.
Tomas Erban, Bruno Sopko
wiley   +1 more source

Hyperspectral application for early diagnosis of American foulbrood disease in the honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) larvae

Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 2019
Non-destructive methods are of utmost importance for early diagnosis of American foulbrood (AFB) disease in honeybees’ larvae. This study discusses the potential application of spectroradiometric techniques for spectral discrimination of AFB disease in ...
M.S. Yones, Shireen A.M. Ma'moun, Rasha M.A. Farag, M.M. Abd El-Raouf   +3 more
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Involvement of secondary metabolites in the pathogenesis of the American foulbrood of honey bees caused by Paenibacillus larvae [PDF]

, 2015
Covering: 2011 to end of 2014 The Gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium Paenibacillus larvae (P. larvae) is the causative agent of the epizootic American Foulbrood (AFB), a fatal brood disease of the western honey bee (Apis mellifera). AFB is one of the
García-Gonzalez, Eva, Genersch, Elke, Müller, Sebastian, Süßmuth, Roderich D.   +3 more
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Mite non‐reproduction is not a consequence of the brood removal behavior of varroa sensitive hygiene honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 6, June 2024.
The specialized hygienic behavior of selected honey bees, called varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH), was thought to cause high levels of non‐reproductive mites. To further investigate this link, we used the experimental setup and data sets from a four‐year selection project designed to breed mite non‐reproduction (MNR) and VSH colonies.
Lina Sprau, Kirsten Traynor, Birgit Gessler, Martin Hasselmann, Peter Rosenkranz   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source