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Honey bees are the most abundant visitors to Australian watermelon but native stingless bees are equally effective as pollinators

Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022
Despite the benefits of a diverse approach to crop pollination, global food production remains reliant on a low diversity of managed pollinators, especially the European honey bee (Apis mellifera).
Erandi C. W. Subasinghe Arachchige, Romina Rader, Brian T. Cutting, Matthew Keir, Theo vanNoort, Grant Fale, Brad G. Howlett, Ulrika Samnegård, Lisa J. Evans   +8 more
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Fast Charge–Discharge of LiNi0.9Co0.05Mn0.05 Enabled by a Bikitaite‐Infused Separator for Li Metal Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A bikitaite‐infused cellulose separator is introduced for Li metal batteries, leveraging bikitaite zeolite's ion‐conductive properties to regulate Li+‐ion flux and suppress dendrite growth. The membrane design ensures uniform Li plating, enhanced electrolyte wettability, and robust thermal/mechanical stability, delivering stable performance and low ...
Isheunesu Phiri, Kennedy Ssendagire, Sun‐Yul Ryou   +2 more
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Introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) potentially reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees through a male-bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction

Frontiers in Bee Science
IntroductionIn Australia, as well as many other regions of the world, European honey bees Apis mellifera are an introduced species and may harm native bee fauna by competing with them for food resources.
Kit Prendergast, Kit Prendergast, Mark V. Murphy, Peter G. Kevan, Zong-Xin Ren, Lynne A. Milne   +5 more
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Surprising Water Slipping Performance on Highly Hydrophilic PEG‐Derived Monolayer‐Covered Surfaces: Preparation, Mechanism, and Application

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Highly hydrophilic surfaces (water contact angle, ≈17.7°) exhibiting surprising water slipping performance (sliding angle, ≈7.3°) are successfully prepared via simple chemisorption of polyethylene glycol (PEG) organosilane and subsequent alkali‐treatment.
Hyeonjin Kim, Kouki Akaike, Jerred Wassgren, Hiroshi Kakiuchida, Masahisa Okada, Atsushi Hozumi   +5 more
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European Wool Carder Bee, Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

EDIS, 2020
The European wool carder bee Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus) is a solitary, cavity-nesting bee species in the family Megachilidae (tribe Anthidiini), a family whose members include the mason and leaf cutter bees. Wool carder bees are so named because the
Samantha Gallagher, Andrea Lucky
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Earlier Morning Arrival to Pollen-Rewarding Flowers May Enable Feral Bumble Bees to Successfully Compete with Local Bee Species and Expand Their Distribution Range in a Mediterranean Habitat

Insects, 2022
During recent decades, bumble bees (Bombus terrestris) have continuously expanded their range in the Mediterranean climate regions of Israel. To assess their potential effects on local bee communities, we monitored their diurnal and seasonal activity ...
Noam Bar-Shai, Uzi Motro, Avishai Shmida, Guy Bloch   +3 more
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n‐Type Polymer Radio Frequency Rectifiers Operating at 18.5 GHz

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Combining an n‐doped polymer semiconductor with wafer‐scale asymmetric planar electrodes featuring work function‐engineered contacts yields radio‐frequency diodes and rectifying circuits operating at up to 18.5 GHz. The devices combine scalable manufacturing with an operating frequency previously unattainable by large‐area organic electronics ...
Lazaros Panagiotidis, Filip Aniés, Yiyang Yu, Mohammed Ghadiyali, Hendrik Faber, Zhanibek Bizak, Youssef Kabri, Pavlos Tzourmpakis, Suman Mandal, Linqu Luo, Temur Maksudov, Mohamad Insan Nugraha, Harold F. Mazo‐Mantilla, Patrice Vanelle, Julie Broggi, Khaled N. Salama, Udo Schwingenschlögl, Martin Heeney, Atif Shamim, Thomas D. Anthopoulos   +19 more
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A Comparison of Pollination Efficiency Between Wild Bumble Bees and Introduced Honey Bees on Polygonatum cyrtonema

Biology
To clarify the pollination contributions of introduced honey bees and native wild bees, we compared their pollination efficiency on a perennial herb, Polygonatum cyrtonema Hua.
Ju Tang, Xiang-Xiang Ge, Yu-Jie Xu, Yu Zhang, Jian-Wen Shao, Xiao-Hong Li   +5 more
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Wildfires Influence Abundance, Diversity, and Intraspecific and Interspecific Trait Variation of Native Bees and Flowering Plants Across Burned and Unburned Landscapes

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Wildfire regimes are changing in the western United States, yet the ways in which wildfires influence native bees, the resources they depend on for food and nesting, or the traits that influence their interactions with plants are poorly understood.
Laura A. Burkle, Michael P. Simanonok, J. Simone Durney, Jonathan A. Myers, R. Travis Belote   +4 more
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Behavioral Responses to Body Position in Bees: The Interaction of Apis mellifera and Lithurgus littoralis in Prickly Pear Flowers

Insects, 2022
The behavior of bees is modulated by the presence of other bees and potentially by the visual information transmitted by the different body positions of bees while visiting flowers.
Ariadna I. Santa Anna-Aguayo, Edmont Celis-López, Colleen M. Schaffner, Jordan Golubov, Luis E. Eguiarte, Gabriel Arroyo-Cosultchi, Claudia Álvarez-Aquino, Zelene Durán-Barradas, Armando J. Martínez   +8 more
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