Phenological mismatches and the demography of solitary bees [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 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 ...
Diego P Vazquez +2 more
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Widespread occurrence of honey bee pathogens in solitary bees [PDF]
Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2014 Solitary bees and honey bees from a neighbouring apiary were screened for a broad set of putative pathogens including protists, fungi, spiroplasmas and viruses. Most sampled bees appeared to be infected with multiple parasites. Interestingly, viruses exclusively known from honey bees such as Apis mellifera Filamentous Virus and Varroa destructor Macula-
Jorgen Ravoet +2 more
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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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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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Brain microRNAs among social and solitary bees. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2020 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
Kapheim KM +6 more
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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 +10 more
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Mitigating the Effects of Habitat Loss on Solitary Bees in Agricultural Ecosystems
Agriculture (Switzerland), 2020 Solitary bees and other wild pollinators provide an important ecosystem service which can benefit both the agricultural economy and the sustainability of many native ecosystems. Many solitary bees, however, are experiencing decreases in their populations
Neelendra K Joshi, Joshi Neelendra K
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Exosymbiotic microbes within fermented pollen provisions are as important for the development of solitary bees as the pollen itself [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Prarthana S Dharampal +2 more
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