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Predation Cues in Solitary bee Nests. [PDF]
J Insect Behav, 2017 Predation at the nesting site can significantly affect solitary bees' reproductive success. We tested female red mason bees' (Osmia bicornis L.) acceptance of potential nesting sites, some of which were marked with cues coming from predated conspecifics (crushed bees) or from a predator itself (rodent excreta).
Kierat J +3 more
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Phenological mismatches and the demography of solitary bees
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023 Species respond idiosyncratically to environmental variation, which may generate phenological mismatches. We assess the consequences of such mismatches for solitary bees. During 9 years, we studied flowering phenology and nesting phenology and demography of five wood-nesting solitary bee species representing a broad gradient of specialization ...
Diego P. Vázquez +4 more
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Toxicon: X, 2022 Modern venomics is increasing its focus on hymenopterans such as honeybees, bumblebees, parasitoid wasps, ants and true wasps. However solitary bees remain understudied in comparison and the few available venom studies focus on short melittin-like ...
Björn M. von Reumont +2 more
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Diversity, 2022 The decline in pollinator insect abundance and diversity is increasing on a global scale. Major threats are the byproducts of numerous negative environmental pressures acting individually or in combination.
Ivana Tlak Gajger +5 more
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Post-embryonic Development of the Circadian Clock Seems to Correlate With Social Life Style in Bees
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 Social life style can influence many aspects of an animal’s daily life, but it has not yet been clarified, whether development of the circadian clock in social and solitary living bees differs.
Katharina Beer +1 more
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Widespread occurrence of honey bee pathogens in solitary bees [PDF]
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2014 Solitary bees and honey bees from a neighbouring apiary were screened for a broad set of putative pathogens including protists, fungi, spiroplasmas and viruses. Most sampled bees appeared to be infected with multiple parasites. Interestingly, viruses exclusively known from honey bees such as Apis mellifera Filamentous Virus and Varroa destructor Macula-
Ravoet, J. +5 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The effects of climate change on solitary bee species, the most diverse and abundant group of wild pollinators, remain poorly understood, limiting our ability to forecast consequences for bee-plant interactions and pollination services.
Anthony H. Slominski, Laura A. Burkle
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Ascosphaera callicarpa, a new species of bee-loving fungus, with a key to the genus for Europe. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 We studied the bee specialist fungus Ascosphaera in wild solitary bees to investigate the diversity of the genus in nature and the ecology of these fungi with their bee hosts.
Anja A Wynns +2 more
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Diverse microbiota identified in whole intact nest chambers of the red mason bee Osmia bicornis (Linnaeus 1758). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Microbial activity is known to have profound impact on bee ecology and physiology, both by beneficial and pathogenic effects. Most information about such associations is available for colony-building organisms, and especially the honey bee. There, active
Alexander Keller +2 more
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Gut microbiota variation of a tropical oil-collecting bee species far exceeds that of the honeybee
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 IntroductionInterest for bee microbiota has recently been rising, alleviating the gap in knowledge in regard to drivers of solitary bee gut microbiota. However, no study has addressed the microbial acquisition routes of tropical solitary bees.
Elif Kardas +5 more
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