The Bees among Us: Modelling Occupancy of Solitary Bees. [PDF]
PLoS 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 ...
J Scott MacIvor, Laurence Packer
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The gut microbiome of solitary bees is mainly affected by pathogen assemblage and partially by land use [PDF]
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 +11 more
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Brain microRNAs among social and solitary bees. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2020 ABSTRACTEvolutionary 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).
Kapheim KM +6 more
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Phenological mismatches and the demography of solitary bees. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 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 ...
Vázquez DP +4 more
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Solitary Bees Acquire and Deposit Bacteria via Flowers: Testing the Environmental Transmission Hypothesis Using Osmia lignaria, Phacelia tanacetifolia, and Apilactobacillus micheneri [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMicrobial environmental transmission among individuals plays an important role in shaping the microbiomes of many species. Despite the importance of the microbiome for host fitness, empirical investigations on environmental transmission are scarce ...
Magda Argueta‐Guzmán +2 more
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Environmental Display Can Buffer the Effect of Pesticides on Solitary Bees [PDF]
Insects, 2020 Environmental quality (e.g., diversity of resource availability, nesting sites, environmental display) plays an important role in an animal’s life. While homogeneous environments can restrict organisms from developing activities such as food seeking ...
Samuel Boff, Josué Raizer, Daniela Lupi
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Solitary Bees Host More Bacteria and Fungi on Their Cuticle than Social Bees [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2023 Bees come into contact with bacteria and fungi from flowering plants during their foraging trips. The Western honeybee (Apis mellifera) shows a pronounced hygienic behavior with social interactions, while the solitary red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) lacks a social immune system.
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Solitary Bees Facing Climate Change
SociobiologySolitary bees comprise over 15,000 species. They represent the vast majority of bees on earth (>77%), but they are less studied than the social species.
Isabel Alves-dos-Santos +2 more
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Overwintering temperature and body condition shift emergence dates of spring-emerging solitary bees. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Schenk M +3 more
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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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