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Contact toxicity of three insecticides for use in tier I pesticide risk assessments with Megachile rotundata (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 The current pesticide risk assessment paradigm may not adequately protect solitary bees as it focuses primarily on the honey bee (Apis mellifera). The alfalfa leafcutting bee (Megachile rotundata) is a potential surrogate species for use in pesticide ...
Graham R. Ansell +3 more
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Deformed wing virus prevalence in solitary bees put to the test: an experimental transmission study
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Virus spillover from managed to unmanaged bees and vice versa may be one mechanism driving colony losses of the former and declines of the latter. There is clear evidence that the ubiquitous Deformed wing virus (DWV) is a major driver of honey bee (Apis ...
Alexandria Schauer +5 more
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Neotropical bee microbiomes point to a fragmented social core and strong species-level effects
Microbiome, 2023 Background Individuals that band together create new ecological opportunities for microorganisms. In vertical transmission, theory predicts a conserved microbiota within lineages, especially social bees. Bees exhibit solitary to social behavior among and/
Jordan G. Kueneman +4 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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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2023 Sowing flower strips along field edges is a widely adopted method for conserving pollinating insects in agricultural landscapes. To maximize the effect of flower strips given limited resources, we need spatially explicit tools that can prioritize their ...
Markus A. K. Sydenham +10 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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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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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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