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Toxics, 2023 Honey bees have significant ecological and economic value as important pollinators, but they are continuously exposed to various environmental stressors, including insecticides, which can impair their health and cause colony decline.
Xiasang Chen +5 more
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Mason bees and honey bees synergistically enhance fruit set in sweet cherry orchards
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Mason bees (Osmia spp.) are efficient fruit tree pollinators that can be encouraged to occupy and breed in artificial nesting material. In sweet cherry orchards, they are occasionally used as an alternative managed pollinator as a replacement for or in ...
Julia Osterman +8 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Insect pollinators are vital to the stability of a broad range of both natural and anthropogenic ecosystems and add billions of dollars to the economy each year. Honey bees are perhaps the best studied insect pollinator due to their economic and cultural
Isaac P. Weinberg +6 more
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IntelliBeeHive: An Automated Honey Bee, Pollen, and Varroa Destructor Monitoring System [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Utilizing computer vision and the latest technological advancements, in this study, we developed a honey bee monitoring system that aims to enhance our understanding of Colony Collapse Disorder, honey bee behavior, population decline, and overall hive health. The system is positioned at the hive entrance providing real-time data, enabling beekeepers to
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Impact of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) density on wild bee foraging behaviour
Journal of Apicultural Science, 2016 Honey bees are globally regarded as important crop pollinators and are also valued for their honey production. They have been introduced on an almost worldwide scale.
Goras Georgios +5 more
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Impacts of seasonality and parasitism on honey bee population dynamics [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The honeybee plays an extremely important role in ecosystem stability and diversity and in the production of bee pollinated crops. Honey bees and other pollinators are under threat from the combined effects of nutritional stress, parasitism, pesticides, and climate change that impact the timing, duration, and variability of seasonal events.
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Possible Spillover of Pathogens between Bee Communities Foraging on the Same Floral Resource
Insects, 2021 Viruses are known to contribute to bee population decline. Possible spillover is suspected from the co-occurrence of viruses in wild bees and honey bees.
Anne Dalmon +7 more
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Viral infection affects sucrose responsiveness and homing ability of forager honey bees, Apis mellifera L. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Honey bee health is mainly affected by Varroa destructor, viruses, Nosema spp., pesticide residues and poor nutrition. Interactions between these proposed factors may be responsible for the colony losses reported worldwide in recent years. In the present
Zhiguo Li +9 more
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First large-scale genomic prediction in the honey bee [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Genomic selection has increased genetic gain in several livestock species, but due to the complicated genetics and reproduction biology not yet in honey bees. Recently, 2 970 queens were genotyped to gather a reference population. For the application of genomic selection in honey bees, this study analyses the predictive ability and bias of pedigree ...
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Plant evolution can mediate negative effects from honey bees on wild pollinators
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Pollinators are introduced to agroecosystems to provide pollination services. Introductions of managed pollinators often promote ecosystem services, but it remains largely unknown whether they also affect evolutionary mutualisms between wild pollinators ...
James R. D. Milner +3 more
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