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RNA editing is abundant and correlates with task performance in a social bumblebee
Nature Communications, 2019 Bumblebee workers are genetically highly similar but they show different behaviors such as brood care and foraging. Here the authors report a high level of ADAR-mediated RNA editing in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris and its weak correlation to task ...
Hagit T. Porath +8 more
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Accuracy of occurrence and abundance estimates from insect metabarcoding
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, EarlyView.Abstract DNA metabarcoding—high‐throughput sequencing of barcode regions from bulk samples—has become a key tool for insect biodiversity assessment. Yet, how methodological choices affect the accuracy of metabarcoding data remains insufficiently explored. In this paper, we ask: (1) How does the lysis method (non‐destructive lysis vs.
Ela Iwaszkiewicz‐Eggebrecht +12 more
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Pollinator‐targeted annual flower strips increase abundances of pollinators but also natural enemies and herbivores. Natural enemies and herbivores disperse in a taxon‐specific manner into nearby crops. Pest control by ground‐dwellers slightly increases in crop areas near the flower strips.
Neus Rodríguez‐Gasol +6 more
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Communications BiologyPathogen spillover events are of global concern as they have the potential to cause significant harm to the novel host species. The potential of viral spillover from the western honey bee (Apis mellifera) to other insects is well established.
Dean A. McKeown +13 more
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Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.We extracted pollen from colony beeswax to quantify season‐long, colony‐level resource use and tested how managed Bombus impatiens visitation and Rosaceae pollen collection relate to landscape context and strawberry pollination. Increased managed bumble bee visitation was not influenced by surrounding landcover, did not reduce pollen limitation and ...
Leeah I. Richardson +6 more
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The dual crisis: Climate change simultaneously drives pollinator decline and Pest outbreaks
Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.Climate change acts as an asymmetric ecological filter, favouring r‐selected pest traits (rapid reproduction, generalism) while disadvantaging K‐selected pollinators. For every 1°C of warming, bee species richness declines ~25% since the 1990s, while pest‐induced crop losses increase by 10%–25%. A network‐centric approach integrating climate‐responsive
Diriba Fufa Serdo
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Full classification of static spherical vacuum solutions to bumblebee gravity with general VEVs
Physics Letters BThe static spherical vacuum solution in a bumblebee gravity model where the bumblebee field Bμ has a two-component space-like, light-like, and time-like vacuum expectation value bμ is studied.
Jie Zhu, Hao Li
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The Effect of Oral Administration of dsRNA on Viral Replication and Mortality in Bombus terrestris
Viruses, 2015 Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), a single-stranded RNA virus, has a worldwide distribution and affects honeybees as well as other important pollinators.
Niels Piot +4 more
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Taxonomic and functional diversity of urban bees of the world
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Bees play a pivotal role in terrestrial environments. Urbanization can affect these organisms and the ecosystem services they provide. However, knowledge of the global diversity of urban bees is limited. Thus, we summarized data on urban bee species identities and occurrences; compared distributions of all bees with those found in urban ...
João C. F. Cardoso +10 more
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The dilemma of honey bee pest management in European Union: eradication or coexistence?
Insect Science, EarlyView.
Michela Bertola, Franco Mutinelli
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