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Honey Bee and Bumble Bee Antiviral Defense [PDF]

Viruses, 2018
Bees are important plant pollinators in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. Managed and wild bees have experienced high average annual colony losses, population declines, and local extinctions in many geographic regions. Multiple factors, including virus infections, impact bee health and longevity.
Alexander J. McMenamin, Katie F. Daughenbaugh, Fenali Parekh, Marie C. Pizzorno, Michelle L. Flenniken   +4 more
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Differences in EAG Response and Behavioral Choices between Honey Bee and Bumble Bee to Tomato Flower Volatiles

Insects, 2022
Bumble bees and honey bees are of vital importance for tomato pollination, although honey bees are less attracted to tomato flowers than bumble bees. Little is known about how tomato flower volatile compounds influence the foraging behaviors of honey ...
Jinjia Liu, Jiangchao Zhang, Jinshan Shen, Huiting Zhao, Weihua Ma, Yusuo Jiang   +5 more
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Conservation Conundrum: At-risk Bumble Bees (Bombus spp.) Show Preference for Invasive Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) While Foraging in Protected Areas [PDF]

, 2019
In recent decades, some bumble bee species have declined, including in North America. Declines have been reported in species of bumble bees historically present in Ontario, including: yellow bumble bee (Bombus fervidus) (Fabricus, 1798), American bumble ...
Colla, Sheila R, Gibson, Shelby D, Liczner, Amanda R   +2 more
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Honey bees exhibit greater patch fidelity than bumble bees when foraging in a common environment

Ecosphere, 2023
Animals commonly exhibit a tendency to return to previously visited locations. Such tendency is manifested at different scales, for example, fidelity to a site or fidelity to a specific patch within a site.
Fabiana P. Fragoso, Johanne Brunet
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Specificity Between Lactobacilli And Hymenopteran Hosts Is The Exception Rather Than The Rule [PDF]

, 2013
Lactobacilli (Lactobacillales: Lactobacillaceae) are well known for their roles in food fermentation, as probiotics, and in human health, but they can also be dominant members of the microbiota of some species of Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps ...
Cannone, Jamie J., Gutell, Robin R., Kellner, Katrin, McFrederick, Quinn S., Mueller, Ulrich G., Plowes, Robert M.   +5 more
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Strong Interspecific Differences in Foraging Activity Observed Between Honey Bees and Bumble Bees Using Miniaturized Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018
Central place foragers depart from and return to a central location with enough resources for themselves, and in many cases, for the group. Honey bees and bumble bees are eusocial central place foragers.
Danny F. Minahan, Johanne Brunet, Johanne Brunet   +2 more
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Sublethal effects of kaolin and the biopesticides Prestop-Mix and BotaniGard on metabolic rate, water loss and longevity in bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) [PDF]

, 2015
Kaolin is an inert material with a broad range of applications, e.g. as an insecticide and as a filling substance in the formulation of biopesticides. Hence, bees that dispense biopesticides to the field in the context of entomovectoring are exposed to ...
Dreyersdorff, Gerit, Kaart, Tanel, Karise, Reet, Kuusik, Aare, Muljar, Riin, Mänd, Marika, Smagghe, Guy, Williams, Ingrid   +7 more
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Cuticular hydrocarbons of alpine bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Bombus) are species-specific, but show little evidence of elevation-related climate adaptation

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023
Alpine bumble bees are the most important pollinators in temperate mountain ecosystems. Although they are used to encounter small-scale successions of very different climates in the mountains, many species respond sensitively to climatic changes ...
Fabienne Maihoff, Simone Sahler, Simon Schoger, Kristof Brenzinger, Katharina Kallnik, Nikki Sauer, Lukas Bofinger, Thomas Schmitt, Sabine S. Nooten, Alice Classen   +9 more
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The dose makes the poison: have “field realistic” rates of exposure of bees to neonicotinoid insecticides been overestimated in laboratory studies? [PDF]

, 2014
Recent laboratory based studies have demonstrated adverse sub-lethal effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on honey bees and bumble bees, and these studies have been influential in leading to a European Union moratorium on the use of three neonicotinoids,
BARON G L, BONMATIN J M, BONMATIN J M, CARRECK N L, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY, EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY, EUROPEAN FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY, FELTHAM H, Francis L W Ratnieks, GARBUZOV M, MAUS C, Norman L Carreck, OSBORNE J L, SCHMUCK R, SCHÖNING R, THOMPSON H   +16 more
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Current Pesticide Risk Assessment Protocols Do Not Adequately Address Differences Between Honey Bees (Apis mellifera) and Bumble Bees (Bombus spp.)

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2016
Recent research has demonstrated colony-level sublethal effects of imidacloprid on bumble bees, affecting foraging and food consumption, and thus colony growth and reproduction, at lower pesticide concentrations than for honey bee colonies.
Kimberly Stoner
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