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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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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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EVALUATING SOLITARY BEE NESTING PREFERENCE – DOES THE GROUND COVER MATTER?

, 2023
Solitary bees make up the majority of the world’s 20,000 total species of bees. Over 70% of solitary bees nest underground. Bee fitness is likely determined, in part, by the proximity to appropriate nesting sites. Identifying ground cover management that
Barranco, Lindsay
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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
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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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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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First Record of Female Philopatry in the Tribe Centridini (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Sociobiology
This study addresses the behavior and ecology of the solitary bee Centris aenea. The objective was to verify the philopatry of this bee’s females. The study was carried out in a nest aggregation in the Restinga area in Coroa Vermelha, Santa Cruz de ...
Dinah Halos Mota Monteiro, Maria Eugênia Pereira Gonçalves, Welber da Costa Pina   +2 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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Effect of Morphology and Spatial Distribution of Males on Vocal Identity in a Non‐Learning African Wood Dove

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Emerald‐spotted Wood‐Dove songs show strong individual vocal signatures. Morphology explains little acoustic variation. Acoustic divergence increases with geographic distance between males, while local neighbor density does not influence vocal distinctiveness.
Lia Zampa, Paweł Szymański, Katarzyna Łosak, Tomasz Stanisław Osiejuk   +3 more
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Comparing time‐lapse photography and traditional human observation in collecting crop pollinator visitation data Ajastetun valokuvauksen ja perinteisen suoran havainnoinnin vertailu kerättäessä tietoa pölyttäjien kukkakäynneistä viljelykasveilla

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Time‐lapse photography with commercially available trail cameras provides a competitive alternative to direct human observations for documenting pollinator flower visits, but its performance varies between crops. In apple, the cameras recorded more diverse pollinator assemblages than the human observer due to larger temporal coverage of the camera ...
Marjaana Toivonen, Paula Humberg
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