The wild solitary bees Andrena vaga, Anthophora plumipes, Colletes cunicularius, and Osmia cornuta microbiota are host specific and dominated by endosymbionts and environmental microorganisms [PDF]
, 2023 Amanda Hettiarachchi +8 more
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The 'Maagdentoren' of Zichem (Belgium) : damage assessment of ferruginous sandstone by X-ray tomography [PDF]
, 2010 The ferruginous sandstone of the gothic “Maagdentoren” is suffering from a specific biological deterioration process triggered by perforating activities of mason bees.
Boone, Matthieu +4 more
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Unbiased RNA shotgun metagenomics in social and solitary wild bees detects associations with eukaryote parasites and new viruses [PDF]
, 2016 The diversity of eukaryote organisms and viruses associated with wild bees remains poorly characterized in contrast to the well-documented pathosphere of the western honey bee, Apis mellifera.
Braeckman, Bart +5 more
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Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.This study tests whether early‐life maternal association buffers offspring from the effects of prenatal stress in a facultatively social lizard. Despite clear effects of maternal glucocorticoids on growth and social behaviour, social associations did not mitigate these effects, revealing limits to social buffering in this species.
Kirsty J. MacLeod +4 more
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Ingestion of fungicides reduces net energy gain and microbiome diversity of the solitary mason bee [PDF]
, 2023 Mitzy F. Porras +8 more
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Proventricular structure in solitary bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) [PDF]
Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 2005 AbstractProventricular structure, analyzed by scanning electronic microscopy, is compared among 28 species of solitary bees representing four families. Observations on the shapes of proventricular folds and on hair-like cuticular projections are presented, discussed, and suggested as useful to future studies of bee systematics.
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Economic Record, EarlyView.We examine the impact of two changes to Australia's Parenting Payment Single (PPS) program, a welfare payment for low‐income single mothers. One change lowered the age of the youngest child cut off for program eligibility, forcing new welfare entrants onto the less generous Newstart (unemployment) payment.
Kristen Sobeck, Robert Breunig
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Are landscape structures insurmountable barriers for foraging bees? A mark-recapture study with two solitary pollen specialist species [PDF]
, 2018 To investigate whether landscape structures act as insurmountable barriers for foraging bees, we conducted mark-recapture studies with two pollen-specialist solitary species.
Bachofen, Christoph +4 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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