Scientific Reports, 2021 Flowers can be transmission platforms for parasites that impact bee health, yet bees share floral resources with other pollinator taxa, such as flies, that may be hosts or non-host vectors (i.e., mechanical vectors) of parasites.
Abby E. Davis +9 more
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From Bees to Flies: Global Shift in Pollinator Communities Along Elevation Gradients
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Bees decrease in abundance and richness along elevation gradients, while flies replace bees as the dominant flower visitors in higher elevation systems. We reviewed the existing literature to determine if this global phenomenon of pollinator communities ...
Lindsie M. McCabe +4 more
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Seven new records of bee flies (Bombyliidae, Diptera) from Saudi Arabia
Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, 2022 Background Bombyliidae (bee flies) are one of the largest dipterous families in Saudi Arabia with 116 hitherto recorded species. Larvae of these flies are predators or parasitoids of different stages of other insects in the orders Orthoptera, Neuroptera,
Magdi El-Hawagry +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2019 Insect pollinator communities are thought to transition from bee-dominated communities at low elevations to fly-dominated communities at high elevations.
Lindsie M McCabe +4 more
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Assessing species-specific neonicotinoid toxicity using cross-species chimeric nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in a Drosophila model [PDF]
Scientific ReportsNicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are ligand-gated ion channels and the main mediators of synaptic neurotransmission in the insect brain. In insects, nAChRs are pivotal for sensory processing, cognition and motor control, and are the primary ...
Anna Lassota +2 more
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Distribution and Quantification of Infectious and Parasitic Agents in Managed Honeybees in Central Italy, the Republic of Kosovo, and Albania [PDF]
MicroorganismsThis study aimed to determine the presence of relevant infectious and parasitic agents (IPAs) in managed honeybees from Central Italy and the Republic of Kosovo and Albania to assess the overall health status of local apiaries by determining the ...
Franca Rossi +7 more
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New records of bee flies (Diptera, Bombyliidae) from Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila, Mexico [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2014 Forty one new records of species of Bombyliidae are reported for Coahuila in northeastern Mexico. Nine of these species are reported for the first time for the country. The specimens were collected in the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin and Sierra La Madera
Omar Ávalos-Hernández +4 more
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The oldest representative of the bombyliid bee fly in the earliest Eocene French amber [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2020 Eoconophorinadelfineae gen. et sp. nov., the oldest repre-sentative of the bee fly subfamily Bombyliinae, is described from the earliest Eocene Oise amber (France). It is charac-terized by the presence of mid tibial spurs, cylindrical ab-domen and
Aude Maheu, Andre Nel
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Environmental filtering of body size and darker coloration in pollinator communities indicate thermal restrictions on bees, but not flies, at high elevations [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Background Bees and flies are the two most dominant pollinator taxa in mountain environments of the Southwest USA. Communities of both taxa change dramatically along elevation gradients.
Lindsie M. McCabe +2 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Honey bees play an important role in the pollination of crops and wild plants and provide important products to humans. Pathogens and parasites are the main factors that threaten beekeeping in South Korea.
A-Tai Truong +5 more
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