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Honey bee colony losses: Why are honey bees disappearing?
Sociobiology, 2021 The managed honey bees are the most important pollinators for many crops and wild flowering species. Many countries around the world, particularly in the northern hemisphere, rely on the Western honey bee, Apis mellifera, for commercial pollination of ...
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Introduced plants may be important foraging resources for honey bees and wild pollinators, but how often and why pollinators visit introduced plants across an entire plant community is not well understood.
Christine Urbanowicz +2 more
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Pathogenicity of
mBio, 2018 Although few honey bee diseases are known to be caused by bacteria, pathogens of adult worker bees may be underrecognized due to social immunity mechanisms. Specifically, infected adult bees typically abandon the hive or are removed by guards.
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Mixed effects of honey bees on pollination function in the Tibetan alpine grasslands [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe global expansion of domesticated plant and animal species has profoundly impacted biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, the spillover effect of non-native honey bees from mass-flowering crops into adjacent natural vegetation on pollination ...
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Sociobiology, 2022 We describe here nesting biology of Hoplonomia westwoodi, a common ground nesting solitary bee in India. A typical nest consisted of a straight main tunnel with the cells arranged horizontally at the end. Number of cells per nest ranged from 2 to 4 (x̄ =
K T Vijayakumar +2 more
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Pathogens Spillover from Honey Bees to Other Arthropods
Pathogens, 2021 Honey bees, and pollinators in general, play a major role in the health of ecosystems. There is a consensus about the steady decrease in pollinator populations, which raises global ecological concern. Several drivers are implicated in this threat.
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Are Honey Bees at Risk from Microplastics?
Toxics, 2021 Microplastics (MPs) are ubiquitous and persistent pollutants, and have been detected in a wide variety of media, from soils to aquatic systems. MPs, consisting primarily of polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyacrylamide polymers, have recently been ...
Yahya Al Naggar +7 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Beekeeping is a cornerstone activity that has led to the human-mediated, global spread of western honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) outside their native range of Europe, western Asia, and Africa.
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Comparing levels of geitonogamous visitation by honey bees and other pollinators
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Geitonogamy, the transfer of pollen from one flower to another on the same plant, is often the primary means of self-pollination in flowering plants.
Dillon Travis, Joshua Kohn
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are ecologically, agriculturally, and economically important plant pollinators. High average annual losses of honey bee colonies in the US have been partially attributed to agrochemical exposure and virus infections ...
Fenali Parekh +7 more
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