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Pesticide use in integrated pest and pollinator management framework to protect pollinator health

Pest Management Science, Volume 81, Issue 4, Page 1691-1696, April 2025.
Integrated pest management (IPM) emphasizes non‐chemical methods, with pesticides as a last resort, while integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM) integrates pollinator health into pest control strategies. Abstract Agricultural pesticides have historically been a critical tool in controlling pests and diseases, preventing widespread suffering ...
Ngoc T Phan, David J Biddinger, Edwin G Rajotte, Guy Smagghe, Gadi VP Reddy, Zong‐Xin Ren, Neelendra K Joshi   +6 more
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Robotics for Crop Pollination: Recent Advances and Future Direction

Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is great interest in alternative pollination strategies for crop production in the face of climate change and perennial threats to the traditional pollination mechanisms. This review explores the potential of robotic pollination as a promising solution to these challenges affecting crop fertilization, agricultural sustainability, and ...
Ranjan Sapkota, Matthew D. Whiting, Dawood Ahmed, Manoj Karkee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking pollen foraging of megachilid bees to their nest bacterial microbiota

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Solitary bees build their nests by modifying the interior of natural cavities, and they provision them with food by importing collected pollen. As a result, the microbiota of the solitary bee nests may be highly dependent on introduced materials.
Anna Voulgari‐Kokota, Markus J. Ankenbrand, Gudrun Grimmer, Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter, Alexander Keller   +4 more
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Diets maintained in a changing world: Does land‐use intensification alter wild bee communities by selecting for flexible generalists?

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Biodiversity loss, as often found in intensively managed agricultural landscapes, correlates with reduced ecosystem functioning, for example, pollination by insects, and with altered plant composition, diversity, and abundance.
Birte Peters, Alexander Keller, Sara Diana Leonhardt   +2 more
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Development and Evaluation of a Low‐Cost, Semi‐Automated Camera Trap for Surveying Bumble Bee Communities

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Camera traps are emerging as a useful tool for noninvasive insect monitoring; however, it remains unclear how to lure diurnal insects to traps, how to detect them upon arrival, and how camera‐based methods compare to conventional sampling. We developed a low‐cost, open‐source camera trap to monitor wild bumble bees in agricultural fields. We found that
Michael P. Getz, Lincoln R. Best, Oksana Ostroverkhova, Andony P. Melathopoulos, Timothy L. Warren   +4 more
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Description and validation of an improved method to feed solitary bees (Osmia spp.) known amounts of pesticides

Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023
Pesticide exposure is an important driver of bee declines. Laboratory toxicity tests provide baseline information on the potential effects of pesticides on bees, but current risk assessment schemes rely on one species, the highly social honey bee, Apis ...
C. Azpiazu, S. Hinarejos, G. Sancho, S. Albacete, F. Sgolastra, C.A.H. Martins, X. Domene, J. Benrezkallah, A. Rodrigo, X. Arnan, J. Bosch   +10 more
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Commercial Product Based on Metarhizium Anisopliae Affects Survival, Midgut Morphology, and Behavior in the Stingless Bee Scaptotrigona depilis (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazilian social stingless bees are important pollinators and producers of honey, wax, royal jelly, propolis, and other products. These species are experiencing a population decline, attributed to different factors, such as the excessive use of pesticides.
Andressa Santoro, Daiani Rodrigues Moreira, Talita Aparecida Tódora Santana, Wingly Santos Beltrame, Nathalia Rodrigues da Silva de Carvalho, Breno Gabriel da Silva, Gustavo Henrique de Souza, Livia Bracht, Adriana Aparecida Sinópolis Gigliolli, Maria Claudia Colla Ruvolo Takasusuki   +9 more
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Brood parasitism reduces but does not prevent Bombus terrestris reproductive success

Insect Science, EarlyView.
Graphical depiction of the colony splitting process. Throughout figures in this paper, results pertaining to host success are represented in blue, and cuckoo success is represented in red. Abstract Cuckoo bumblebees are obligate brood parasites that must invade a colony of their host bumblebee species in order to reproduce.
Sofia Dartnell, Lynn V. Dicks
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Native solitary bee health in western Washington

, 2021
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2021Bees are a vital part of the terrestrial ecosystem, providing pollination services to plants and contributing to biodiversity.
Westreich, Lila
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Molecular and phylogenetic characterization of honey bee viruses, Nosema microsporidia, protozoan parasites, and parasitic mites in China [PDF]

, 2013
China has the largest number of managed honey bee colonies, which produce the highest quantity of honey and royal jelly in the world; however, the presence of honey bee pathogens and parasites has never been rigorously identified in Chinese apiaries.
Li, Tianbang, Bu Yang, Yang, Bu, Guangda Peng, Peng, Guangda, Kadowaki, Tatsuhiko, Tatsuhiko Kadowaki, Tianbang Li   +7 more
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