Factors Influencing the Reproductive Ability of Male Bees: Current Knowledge and Further Directions
Insects, 2021 Bumblebees and honeybees are very important pollinators and play a vital role in agricultural and natural ecosystems. The quality of their colonies is determined by the queens and the reproductive drones of mother colonies, and mated drones transmit ...
Huiyue Zhao +3 more
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Pollination strategies in the face of pollinator decline [PDF]
Botany Letters, 2021 The recent pollinator decline in developed countries has been documented in many parts of the world and its anthropogenic causes are now identified.
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Applied Sciences, 2023 Insect-associated microorganisms play important roles in the health and development of insects. This study aimed to investigate the similarities and differences in bacterial community structure and composition between the larval gut of Osmia excavata ...
Wenping Liu +11 more
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Pollination Services of Mango Flower Pollinators [PDF]
Journal of Insect Science, 2015 Measuring wild pollinator services in agricultural production is very important in the context of sustainable management. In this study, we estimated the contribution of native pollinators to mango fruit set production of two mango cultivars Mangifera indica (L). cv. 'Sala' and 'Chok Anan'. Visitation rates of pollinators on mango flowers and number of
Abdul Rahim Hamdan +4 more
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A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland [PDF]
, 2020 1. Agricultural intensification and associated loss of high‐quality habitats are key drivers of insect pollinator declines. With the aim of decreasing the environmental impact of agriculture, the 2014 EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) defined a set of ...
Albrecht, Matthias, +35 more
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The effect of the brood and the queen on early gene expression in bumble bee workers' brains
Scientific Reports, 2022 Worker reproduction in social insects is often regulated by the queen, but can be regulated by the brood and nestmates, who may use different mechanisms to induce the same outcomes in subordinates. Analysis of brain gene expression patterns in bumble bee
Priscila K. F. Santos +3 more
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A review of pollinator conservation and management on infrastructure supporting rights-of-way
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2012 Early successional landscapes along or adjacent to infrastructure installations have been highlighted as potential pollinator conservation zones that provide environmental benefits and ameliorate some of the negative impacts of wildland conversion ...
Victoria Agatha Wojcik, Stephen Buchmann
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 Bumblebee queens have remarkable spermathecae that store sperm for year-round reproduction. The spermathecal gland is regarded as a secretory organ that could benefit sperm storage.
Yueqin Guo +7 more
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Potential landscape-scale pollinator networks across Great Britain: structure, stability and influence of agricultural land cover [PDF]
, 2018 Understanding spatial variation in the structure and stability of plant-pollinator networks, and their relationship with anthropogenic drivers, is key to maintaining pollination services and mitigating declines.
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Why flower visitation is a poor proxy for pollination : measuring single-visit pollen deposition, with implications for pollination networks and conservation [PDF]
, 2013 Funding: NERC studentship (CK - NE/H527291/1), St Andrews Scholarship (GB)Summary The relative importance of specialized and generalized plant-pollinator relationships is contentious, yet analyses usually avoid direct measures of pollinator quality ...
Ballantyne, Gavin Andrew +2 more
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