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The best wildflowers for wild bees [PDF]
Journal of Insect Conservation, 2019 AbstractGovernmental agri-environment schemes (AES) aim to improve pollinator abundance and diversity on farmland by sowing wildflower seed mixes. These often contain high proportions of Fabaceae, particularlyTrifolium(clovers), which are attractive to some bumblebee species, but not to most of the ~ 240 solitary bee species in the UK. Here we identify
Rachel N. Nichols +2 more
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Do managed bees drive parasite spread and emergence in wild bees?
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2016 Bees have been managed and utilised for honey production for centuries and, more recently, pollination services. Since the mid 20th Century, the use and production of managed bees has intensified with hundreds of thousands of hives being moved across ...
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Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Introduced plants may be important foraging resources for honey bees and wild pollinators, but how often and why pollinators visit introduced plants across an entire plant community is not well understood.
Christine Urbanowicz +2 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Wild bees are threatened by multiple interacting stressors, such as habitat loss, land use change, parasites, and pathogens. However, vineyards with vegetated inter‐rows can offer high floral resources within viticultural landscapes and provide foraging ...
Sophie Kratschmer +9 more
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Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees [PDF]
Science, 2017 Damage confirmed Early studies of the impacts of neonicotinoid insecticides on insect pollinators indicated considerable harm. However, lingering criticism was that the studies did not represent field-realistic levels of the chemicals or prevailing environmental conditions.
B. A. Woodcock +18 more
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Impact of honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) density on wild bee foraging behaviour
Journal of Apicultural Science, 2016 Honey bees are globally regarded as important crop pollinators and are also valued for their honey production. They have been introduced on an almost worldwide scale.
Goras Georgios +5 more
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Spontaneous rupture of the lymph nodes as a cause of haemoabdomen in two canine lymphoma patients
Veterinární Medicína, 2020 Non-traumatic haemoabdomen in dogs usually occurs due to abdominal neoplasia, coagulopathies or organ torsion. The most common sources of bleeding in neoplastic cases are the spleen and liver, but other abdominal organs can also be involved.
Tanja Plavec +3 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary ScienceIntroductionWildlife represents an increasingly important source of pathogens of medical and veterinary importance. Surveillance in wildlife offers an insight on current epidemiological status of selected pathogens and help to prevent spillovers to ...
Diana Žele Vengušt +5 more
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Metastatic Cholangiocarcinoma in a Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps)
Acta Veterinaria, 2020 A 6.5-year-old female bearded dragon (Pogona vitticeps) was presented with a swollen right pelvic limb. A tissue core biopsy from the swollen area was performed and a presumptive histopathological diagnosis of adenocarcinoma was made.
Dominik Komenda +6 more
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, 2020 During the last twenty years, the decline of pollinating insects has raised concerns and questions among the scientific community but also within public authorities. Among these insects, wild bees contribute significantly to the pollination of many crops and wild plants. Like many insects, they are victims of various pressures related to more intensive
François, Denis, Le Féon, Violette
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