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Bee-Killing Robber Flies

, 1930
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Searching for the Right Target: Oviposition and Feeding Behavior in Bombylius Bee Flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae) [PDF]

, 2009
Roberto Boesi, Carlo Polidori, and Francesco Andrietti (2009) Searching for the right target: oviposition and feeding behavior in Bombylius bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). Zoological Studies 48(2): 141-150.
Polidori, C, Boesi, R, Andrietti, F
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The Nordic Welfare Model in the Twenty-First Century: The Bumble-Bee Still Flies! [PDF]

Social Policy and Society, 2015
The Nordic countries are admired for high employment, low levels of poverty and inequality, encompassing welfare states, and peaceful industrial relations. Yet the model is criticised for hampering the employment opportunities of vulnerable groups. The literature identifies several potential mechanisms of exclusion.
Halvorsen, Rune, Hvinden, Bjørn, Schøyen, Mi Ah   +2 more
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Hermetia illucens and Hermetia fenestrata (Diptera: Stratiomyidae) Colonization of “Spoiled” Stingless Bee Geniotrigona thoracica (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Hives in Malaysia

Insects, 2020
Meliponiculture, the keeping of domesticated stingless bees such as Geniotrigona thoracica (Smith, 1857) (Hymenoptera: Apidae), is an increasingly popular agricultural industry in Malaysia.
Tania Ivorra, Martin Hauser, Van Lun Low, Jeffery K. Tomberlin, Natasha Azmi Nur Aliah, Jonathan A. Cammack, Chong Chin Heo   +6 more
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Review of Cyrtomyia Bigot (Diptera, BomByliidae, Ecliminae) with a key to the Neotropical genera of Ecliminae and Cyrtomyia species

Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia, 2013
The Neotropical genus Cyrtomyia Bigot has a distribution restricted to the Andean region of South America, with records only in Argentina and Chile. The genus is composed by two species, which are reviewed and redescribed herein: C.
Carlos José Einicker Lamas, Paula Fernanda Motta Rodrigues   +1 more
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Bee diversity in apple orchards of the Lower Himalaya: research synthesis, a new field study, and future needs

Journal of Pollination Ecology
In northern India and surrounding countries of the Lower Himalaya, apple is an important cash crop that contributes significantly to state economies and farmer livelihoods.
Preeti S. Virkar, Ann M. Fraser, Aman Luthra, Ginger R.H. Allington, Shweta Rana, Renu Suyal, Ankita Rawat, Anmol Ratna, Kiran Cunningham, Narendra Raikwal, Anvita Pandey, Vishal Singh   +11 more
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How can cleptoparasitic drosophilid flies emerge from the closed brood cells of the red Mason bee?

, 2010
Aculeate Hymenoptera provision their progeny with large amounts of food. To protect their investment against brood parasites, females of many bee and wasp species construct brood cells that are hard to penetrate when finally sealed.
ERHARD STROHM, STROHM, ERHARD
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Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of honey bee viruses, Nosema microsporidia, protozoan parasites, and parasitic mites in China [PDF]

, 2013
China has the largest number of managed honey bee colonies, which produce the highest quantity of honey and royal jelly in the world; however, the presence of honey bee pathogens and parasites has never been rigorously identified in Chinese apiaries.
Li, Tianbang, Bu Yang, Yang, Bu, Guangda Peng, Peng, Guangda, Kadowaki, Tatsuhiko, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki, Tianbang Li   +7 more
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Phylogeny, classification and biogeography of bombyliine bee flies (Diptera, Bombyliidae)

Systematic Entomology, 2019
Abstract The Bombyliinae comprises over 1100 described species in 73 known genera distributed worldwide. It is one of the largest subfamilies of bee flies (Diptera: Bombyliidae). We present the first phylogenetic hypothesis for this subfamily, based on 157 adult morphological characters scored for 123 species ...
Xuankun Li, David K. Yeates
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Insect Pollinators in Iowa Cornfields: Community Identification and Trapping Method Analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2016
Availability of mass flowering plants in landscapes dominated by agriculture can have a strong positive impact on the density of generalist, native pollinators.
M J Wheelock, M E O'Neal
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