Frequency and behavior of Melipona stingless bees and orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in relation to floral characteristics of vanilla in the Yucatán region of Mexico. [PDF]
PLoS ONEVanilla planifolia is native to the Mexican tropics. Despite its worldwide economic importance as a source of vanilla for flavoring and other uses, almost all vanilla is produced by expensive hand-pollination, and minimal documentation exists for its ...
José Javier G Quezada-Euán +3 more
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The evolution of sexual signaling is linked to odorant receptor tuning in perfume-collecting orchid bees [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Male orchid bees collect scents from the environment to attract females for mating. Here, Brand et al. combine population genomic, perfume chemistry, and functional analyses to show how divergence in odorant receptor genes may be driving reproductive ...
Philipp Brand +6 more
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Conservation value and permeability of neotropical oil palm landscapes for orchid bees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 The proliferation of oil palm plantations has led to dramatic changes in tropical landscapes across the globe. However, relatively little is known about the effects of oil palm expansion on biodiversity, especially in key ecosystem-service providing ...
George Livingston +3 more
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The Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genomes of the Facultatively Eusocial Orchid Bee Euglossa dilemma
G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2017 Bees provide indispensable pollination services to both agricultural crops and wild plant populations, and several species of bees have become important models for the study of learning and memory, plant–insect interactions, and social behavior.
Hailin Pan, Cai Li, Nicholas W Saleh
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Using ecological niche models and niche analyses to understand speciation patterns: the case of sister neotropical orchid bees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The role of past connections between the two major South American forested biomes on current species distribution has been recognized a long time ago. Climatic oscillations that further separated these biomes have promoted parapatric speciation, in which
Daniel P Silva +3 more
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Cuticular Hydrocarbons of Orchid Bees Males: Interspecific and Chemotaxonomy Variation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent studies have investigated the composition of compounds that cover the cuticle in social insects, but few studies have focused on solitary bees.
Aline Borba Dos Santos +1 more
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Deforestation Increases Developmental Instability in the Orchid Bee Euglossa imperialis Across Protected Areas of Panama [PDF]
InsectsHabitat loss and deforestation are among the main drivers of biodiversity decline in tropical ecosystems, yet their effects on developmental stability remain poorly understood in many insect groups.
Fernando Moya +13 more
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Raising the sugar content--orchid bees overcome the constraints of suction feeding through manipulation of nectar and pollen provisions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Unlike most other bees, the long-tongued orchid bees ingest nectar using suction feeding. Although long tongues allow exploitation of flowers with deep spurs, the energy intake rate is optimal at 10-20% lower nectar sugar concentrations compared to that ...
Tamara Pokorny, Klaus Lunau, Thomas Eltz
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Green orchid bee Euglossa dilemma Friese (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Apidae)
EDIS, 2013 Green orchid bees are a quite conspicuous and charismatic species. This is mostly due to their large size and bright metallic-green coloration. They are very fast and agile flyers, and can be seen quickly darting from flower to flower separated by long ...
Aaron Mullins
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In euglossine we trust as ecological indicators: a reply to Añino et al. (2019)
Sociobiology, 2021 Orchid bees have been considered as good ecological indicators of habitat disturbances but recently Añino et al. (2019. Sociobiology, 66: 194-197) highlighted reasons why Euglossini role as indicators should be reevaluated.
Rodrigo Barbosa Gonçalves +1 more
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