Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 A recurrent concern in nature conservation is the potential competition for forage plants between wild bees and managed honey bees. Specifically, that the highly sophisticated system of recruitment and large perennial colonies of honey bees quickly ...
Claus Rasmussen +12 more
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Patterns of viral prevalence and load show independent circulation of some honey bee viruses in wild bees [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHoney bee (Apis mellifera) – associated viruses are increasingly detected in wild bees, but the extent and direction of transmission between wild bees and honey bees remain unclear. We surveyed wild bees from 23 genera alongside sympatric A.
Galen Cobb +3 more
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Patch utilization and flower visitations by wild bees in a honey bee‐dominated, grassland landscape [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Understanding habitat needs and patch utilization of wild and managed bees has been identified as a national research priority in the United States. We used occupancy models to investigate patterns of bee use across 1030 transects spanning a gradient of ...
Clint R. V. Otto +2 more
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Mounting evidence that managed and introduced bees have negative impacts on wild bees: an updated review [PDF]
Current Research in Insect Science, 2022 Worldwide, the use of managed bees for crop pollination and honey production has increased dramatically. Concerns about the pressures of these increases on native ecosystems has resulted in a recent expansion in the literature on this subject. To collate
Jay M. Iwasaki, Katja Hogendoorn
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Plant evolution can mediate negative effects from honey bees on wild pollinators
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Pollinators are introduced to agroecosystems to provide pollination services. Introductions of managed pollinators often promote ecosystem services, but it remains largely unknown whether they also affect evolutionary mutualisms between wild pollinators ...
James R. D. Milner +3 more
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Honey Bee Viruses in Wild Bees: Viral Prevalence, Loads, and Experimental Inoculation.
PLoS ONE, 2016 Evidence of inter-species pathogen transmission from managed to wild bees has sparked concern that emerging diseases could be causing or exacerbating wild bee declines.
Adam G Dolezal +7 more
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Do managed bees have negative effects on wild bees?: A systematic review of the literature.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Managed bees are critical for crop pollination worldwide. As the demand for pollinator-dependent crops increases, so does the use of managed bees. Concern has arisen that managed bees may have unintended negative impacts on native wild bees, which are ...
Rachel E Mallinger +2 more
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Plants for Wild Bees—Field Records in Bulgaria
DiversityOne of the eight shortfalls in European wild bee data is the knowledge of the flowering plants they favor. This knowledge is of particular importance for bee gardens and wildflower strips initiatives aiming to provide forage for the wild bees. The aim of
Ekaterina Kozuharova +4 more
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Wild bees as winners and losers: Relative impacts of landscape composition, quality, and climate [PDF]
Global Change Biology, 2021 Christina M. Grozinger +2 more
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MethodsX, 2021 Bisphenol A (BPA) is a highly-produced organic compound of anthropogenic origin with a wide-range use and is ubiquitously present in both living organisms and the environment.
Vesna Cerkvenik-Flajs, Sabina Šturm
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