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Exposure of Larvae of the Solitary Bee Osmia bicornis to the Honey Bee Pathogen Nosema ceranae Affects Life History. [PDF]

Insects, 2019
Wild bees are important pollinators of wild plants and agricultural crops and they are threatened by several environmental stressors including emerging pathogens. Honey bees have been suggested as a potential source of pathogen spillover.
Bramke K, Müller U, McMahon DP, Rolff J.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

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
wiley   +1 more source

Data from methodology for maintaining adult solitary bee Centris analis under laboratory conditions

, 2021
Data from the article "Method for maintaining adult solitary bee Centris analis under laboratory conditions" accepted in the Methods in Ecology and Evolution journal
Rafaela Tadei (11845970), Pâmela Decio (2697037), Cláudia Inês da Silva (9567663), Osmar Malaspina (484369), Elaine Silva-Zacarin (586729)   +4 more
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Exploring integument transcriptomes, cuticle ultrastructure, and cuticular hydrocarbons profiles in eusocial and solitary bee species displaying heterochronic adult cuticle maturation.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Differences in the timing of exoskeleton melanization and sclerotization are evident when comparing eusocial and solitary bees. This cuticular maturation heterochrony may be associated with life style, considering that eusocial bees remain protected ...
Tiago Falcon, Daniel G Pinheiro, Maria Juliana Ferreira-Caliman, Izabel C C Turatti, Fabiano C Pinto de Abreu, Juliana S Galaschi-Teixeira, Juliana R Martins, Moysés Elias-Neto, Michelle P M Soares, Marcela B Laure, Vera L C Figueiredo, Norberto Peporine Lopes, Zilá L P Simões, Carlos A Garófalo, Márcia M G Bitondi   +14 more
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The gut microbiome of solitary bees is mainly affected by pathogen assemblage and partially by land use

Environmental Microbiome, 2023
Pollinators, including solitary bees, are drastically declining worldwide. Among the factors contributing to this decline, bee pathogens and different land uses are of relevance.
Gregorio Fernandez De Landa, Daniele Alberoni, Loredana Baffoni, Mateo Fernandez De Landa, Pablo Damian Revainera, Leonardo Pablo Porrini, Constanza Brasesco, Silvina Quintana, Francisco Zumpano, Martìn Javier Eguaras, Matias Daniel Maggi, Diana Di Gioia   +11 more
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Potential Correlation Between Bombus lantschouensis Thoracic Morphology and Flight Behavior

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Potential correlation between Bombus lantschouensis thoracic morphology and flight behavior. ABSTRACT Remarkably little modern work has investigated the thoracic structures of insects and their relationship to flight locomotion. Most studies focus exclusively on either morphology or flight kinematics.
Wenjie Li, Sipei Liu, Le Zong, Zhengzhong Huang, Lei Jiang, Xiaokun Liu, Pingping Yang, Yitian Zhang, Zhong Du, Weili Fan, Zhuanghui Qin, Xieshuang Wang, Xinying Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Haodong Yin, Jiandong An, Chaodong Zhu, Michael C. Orr, Jiangning Wang, Siqin Ge   +19 more
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Exosymbiotic microbes within fermented pollen provisions are as important for the development of solitary bees as the pollen itself

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Developing bees derive significant benefits from the microbes present within their guts and fermenting pollen provisions. External microbial symbionts (exosymbionts) associated with larval diets may be particularly important for solitary bees that suffer
Prarthana S. Dharampal, Bryan N. Danforth, Shawn A. Steffan   +2 more
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
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Two Novel Geminiviruses Identified in Bees (Apis mellifera and Nomia sp.)

Viruses
Members of the Geminviridae family are circular single-stranded DNA plant-infecting viruses, some of which impact global food production. Geminiviruses are vectored by sap-feeding insects such as leafhoppers, treehoppers, aphids, and whiteflies ...
Rohan Antonio Bandoo, Simona Kraberger, Arvind Varsani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Annual flower strips under the ‘Sweden Blossom’ initiative – how do they perform for pollinators, natural enemies and herbivores?

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Pollinator‐targeted annual flower strips increase abundances of pollinators but also natural enemies and herbivores. Natural enemies and herbivores disperse in a taxon‐specific manner into nearby crops. Pest control by ground‐dwellers slightly increases in crop areas near the flower strips.
Neus Rodríguez‐Gasol, Ola Lundin, Elodie Chapurlat, Mattias Hammarstedt, Mattias Jonsson, Johan A. Stenberg, Maria Viketoft   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source