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Assemblages of flower-visiting insects in clear-cuts are rich and dynamic

European Journal of Entomology, 2021
Clear-cuts in production forests provide an open, sunny environment, with an abundance of nectar, as well as exposed soil and woody debris. This makes them a potential habitat for several groups of insects that typically use open habitats like grassland,
Per MILBERG, Victor ERIKSSON, Karl-Olof BERGMAN   +2 more
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Crop and landscape factors affecting variation in composition and behaviour of the pollinator community in field bean crops

Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023
The global decline in pollinators is likely to negatively affect the yield of insect pollinated crops such as field beans (Vicia faba). To understand the impact of such declines it is important to investigate how the abundance, composition and behaviour ...
Lucy Capstick, Jayna Connelly, Niamh McHugh, John Holland   +3 more
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Possible Spillover of Pathogens between Bee Communities Foraging on the Same Floral Resource

Insects, 2021
Viruses are known to contribute to bee population decline. Possible spillover is suspected from the co-occurrence of viruses in wild bees and honey bees.
Anne Dalmon, Virgine Diévart, Maxime Thomasson, Romain Fouque, Bernard E. Vaissière, Laurent Guilbaud, Yves Le Conte, Mickaël Henry   +7 more
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A new case of gynandromorphism in Xylocopa frontalis (Olivier) (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with an updated review of records in Xylocopinae Latreille

Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2020
The description and illustration of a new case of gynandromorphism in Xylocopa (Neoxylocopa) frontalis (Olivier) is presented from a single specimen collected in Tena, Cundinamarca, Colombia and currently deposited at the Museo Entomológico Facultad de ...
Germán Villamizar
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Anidación e interacción de abejas sin aguijón (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) con plantas herbáceas en una zona antrópica de León, Nicaragua

Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2023
Las abejas son los principales polinizadores en los hábitats naturales, permitiendo tener ecosistemas resilientes. En este estudio se determinó la riqueza, abundancia y densidad de nidos, distribución espacial y tipos de anidación de abejas sin aguijón ...
Pedro Fernando Silva Illescas, Carlos Iván Real Baca, Petrona Ivania Baca Lezama, Luis Francisco Moreno Mayorga, Rey Eduardo Varela Sánchez, Sonia de Jesús Hernández Duarte   +5 more
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Chemoreceptor Diversity in Apoid Wasps and Its Reduction during the Evolution of the Pollen-Collecting Lifestyle of Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

Genome Biology and Evolution, 2021
Chemoreceptors help insects to interact with their environment, to detect and assess food sources and oviposition sites, and to aid in intra- and interspecific communication.
George F. O. Obiero, Thomas Pauli, E. Geuverink, R. Veenendaal, O. Niehuis, Ewald Grosse-Wilde   +5 more
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Solierella turneri Dutt, 1917 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae: Crabroninae) from India: description of female and new distribution records [PDF]

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics, 2022
View on Scopus The crabronid wasp, Solierella turneri Dutt, 1917 (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) is newly recorded from various regions of India and female is described. Hitherto, the S. turneri Dutt has been only reported from northern India (Pusa of Bihar),
N.V. Ayisha Mawadda, Puthuvayi Girish Kumar   +1 more
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Catálogo de los Megachilidae del Mediterráneo occidental (Hymenoptera, Apoidea). II. Lithurgini y Megachilini

Graellsia, 2007
El catálogo objeto de este trabajo es el segundo de una serie de tres relativa a la familia Megachilidae del territorio comprendido corológicamente en el área mediterránea occidental.
C. Ornosa, F. J. Ortiz-Sánchez, F. Torres   +2 more
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Significance of Apoidea as Main Pollinators. Ecological and Economic Impact and Implications for Human Nutrition

Diversity, 2020
Wild and managed bees provide pollination services to crops and wild plants, as well as a variety of other services beneficial to humans. Honey bees are the most economically valuable pollinator worldwide.
P. Hristov, B. Neov, R. Shumkova, N. Palova   +3 more
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Impact of Apoidea (Hymenoptera) on the World's Food Production and Diets

Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2020
Bees and some wasp species of the superfamily Apoidea pollinate most of the crops used for food and feed, producing different impacts on agricultural production.
Israel Lorenzo-Felipe, C. Blanco, M. Corona   +2 more
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