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The Bee Brick: building habitat for solitary bees [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This article describes the process of designing the Bee Brick - a novel solution for integrating solitary bee habitats within buildings. Of the 250 species of bee in the UK, 90% are solitary bees of which 5% nest in cavities.
Christman, Kate, Hodsdon, Laura
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Functional resin use in solitary bees [PDF]

open access: yesEcological Entomology, 2021
1. Overall, more than 30% of bee species depend on non‐floral resources, such as resin. However, the importance of resin in bee ecology, particularly for solitary bees, has received very little attention thus far. 2. A plethora of loose natural history observations, inferences, and author opinions hint towards a striking range of uses
Shao Xiong Chui   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Evaluation of honey bee larvae data: sensitivity to PPPs and impact analysis of EFSA Bee GD

open access: yes, 2020
In addition to other assessments, the EFSA bee guidance document (2013) requires the risk assessment of plant protection products on honey bee larvae.
Lückmann, Johannes   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Convergent Loss of Prothoracicotropic Hormone, A Canonical Regulator of Development, in Social Bee Evolution

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
The evolution of insect sociality has repeatedly involved changes in developmental events and their timing. Here, we propose the hypothesis that loss of a canonical regulator of moulting and metamorphosis, prothoracicotropic hormone (PTTH), and its ...
Claudinéia P. Costa   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Bees among Us: Modelling Occupancy of Solitary Bees

open access: yesPLOS ONE, 2016
Occupancy modelling has received increasing attention as a tool for differentiating between true absence and non-detection in biodiversity data. This is thought to be particularly useful when a species of interest is spread out over a large area and sampling is constrained.
J Scott MacIvor, Laurence Packer
openaire   +4 more sources

Unbiased RNA Shotgun Metagenomics in Social and Solitary Wild Bees Detects Associations with Eukaryote Parasites and New Viruses. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
The diversity of eukaryote organisms and viruses associated with wild bees remains poorly characterized in contrast to the well-documented pathosphere of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera.
Karel Schoonvaere   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Morphology and temporal evolution of ground-nesting bee burrows created by solitary and social species quantified through X-ray imaging

open access: yesGeoderma, 2023
Most research on wild bees has focused on their role as pollinators, while their importance as soil ecosystem engineers has been largely overlooked, despite the fact that most species nest in the soil.
Philippe Tschanz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pesticide Exposure Assessment Paradigm for Solitary Bees [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironmental Entomology, 2018
Current pesticide risk assessment for bees relies on a single (social) species, the western honey bee, Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae). However, most of the >20,000 bee species worldwide are solitary. Differences in life history traits between solitary bees (SB) and honey bees (HB) are likely to determine differences in routes and levels of ...
Sgolastra F.   +9 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Solitary bees in Pampean agroecosystems: A review about current status of knowledge

open access: yes, 2023
The Pampean region constitutes one of the most extensive and productive grasslands in the world and experienced an abrupt agricultural expansion in the 20th century, which transformed the landscape into a mosaic of agricultural fields, extensive pasture ...
González Vaquero, Rocío Ana   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Brain microRNAs among social and solitary bees [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2019
ABSTRACT Evolutionary transitions to a social lifestyle in insects are associated with lineage-specific changes in gene expression, but the key nodes that drive these regulatory changes are unknown. We examined the relationship between social organization and lineage-specific microRNAs (miRNAs). Genome scans across 12 bee species showed
Karen M. Kapheim   +6 more
openaire   +5 more sources

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