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item Avenues towards reconciling wild and managed bee proponents (Dec 2024)
item Pollen foraging mediates exposure to dichotomous stressor syndromes in honey bee (Oct 2024)
item Resin use and social immunity in honey bees and stingless bees (Oct 2024)
item Fire in feces: bats reliably record fire history in their guano (Oct 2024)
item Do diet and Fumagillin treatment impact Vairimorpha (Nosema) spp. (Microspora: Nosematidae) infections in honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and improve survival and growth of colonies overwintered in cold storage? (Sep 2024)
item Mixed responses of tenebrionid beetles to solar energy development in the Mojave Desert (Aug 2024)
item Climatic predictors of varroa destructor, melissococcus plutonius, and vairimorpha detections in honey bee colonies (Aug 2024)
item BeeID: A molecular tool that identifies honey bee subspecies from different geographic populations (Aug 2024)
item Integrated vegetation management within electric power transmission rights-of-way promotes the abundance and richness of floral resources and flower-visiting insects (Aug 2024)
item Assessing the attractiveness of native wildflower species to bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) in the southeastern United States (Jul 2024)
item The honey bee "hive" microbiota: Meta-analysis reveals a native and aerobic microbiota prevalent throughout the social resource niche (Jul 2024)
item Climatic predictors of varroa destructor, melissococcus plutonius, and vairimorpha detections in honey bee colonies (Jun 2024)
item Application of a standardized impact monitoring protocol (SIMP) to assess biological weed control projects in the state of Idaho, USA (Jun 2024)
item Varroa mite removal from whole honey bee colonies by powdered sugar dusting is enhanced by crowding and mechanical agitation of treated workers (Jun 2024)
item New honey bee health special issue of U.S. and Canadian research (Jun 2024)
item Bat guano isotope systems (d13C, d15N, and d2H) integrate environmental, climatic, and ecological signals (Jun 2024)
item Gynandromorph records of Melissodes trinodis and Melissodes communis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) from North Dakota, USA (Jun 2024)
item Current honey bee stressor investigations and mitigation methods in the U.S. and Canada (May 2024)
item Current honey bee stressor investigations and mitigation methods in the U.S. and Canada (May 2024)
item Relative impacts of varroa infestation and pesticide exposure and their effects on honey bee colony health and survival in a high-intensity corn and soybean producing region in northern Iowa (May 2024)
item A colony health and economic comparison between mite resistant and commercial honey bees (aymenoptera: apidae) (May 2024)
item Bat guano isotope systems (d13C, d15N, and d2H) integrate environmental, climatic, and ecological signals (May 2024)
item Honey bee stressor networks are complex and dependent on crop and region (May 2024)
item Comparative assessment of food consumption, longevity, thermoregulation, and molecular health markers in mite-resistant and Italian honey bee stocks (Apr 2024)
item A longitudinal study of queen health in honey bees reveals tissue specific response to seasonal changes and pathogen pressure (Apr 2024)
item Pollinators and other beneficial insects within two brassicaceous oilseeds and a cover crop mix under evaluation as fallow surrogates for dryland production systems of the northern Great Plains (Apr 2024)
item Baton Rouge bee lab enhances disease resistance and health using novel management tools (Apr 2024)
item Warmer autumns and winters could reduce honey bee overwintering survival with potential risks for pollination services (Mar 2024)
item Green biomanufacturing of edible antiviral therapeutics for managed pollinators (Mar 2024)
item Population structure of three invasive congeneric teasel (Dipsacus) species (Feb 2024)
item Temperature, strip age, exposure surface area affect the outcomes of testing for amitraz resistance in Varroa destructor (Feb 2024)
item Hive orientation and colony strength affect honey bee colony activity during almond pollination (Feb 2024)
item Thinking inside the box: restoring the propolis envelope facilitates honey bee social immunity (Jan 2024)
item A longitudinal field study of commercial honey bees shows that non-native probiotics \do not rescue antibiotic treatment, and are generally not beneficial (Jan 2024)
item Common signatures of selection reveal target loci for breeding across soybean populations (Jan 2024)
item A longitudinal field study of commercial honey bees shows that non-native probiotics do not rescue antibiotic treatment, and are generally not beneficial (Jan 2024)
item Next-generation colony weight monitoring: A review and prospectus (Jan 2024)
item Effects of honey bee queen exposure to Deformed wing virus-A on queen and juvenile infection and colony strength metrics (Dec 2023)
item Increasing large wildfire in the Eastern United States (Dec 2023)
item Effects of ingested essential oils and propolis extracts on honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) health and gut microbiota (Dec 2023)
item Recent contributions of molecular population genetic and phylogenetic studies to classical biological control of weeds (Dec 2023)
item Early impacts of invasive shrub removal on riparian arthropod communities (Dec 2023)
item Quantitative trait loci mapping for survival of virus infection and virus levels in honey bees (Nov 2023)
item Exotic herbivores and fire energy drive standing herbaceous biomass but do not alter compositional patterns in a semiarid savanna ecosystem (Oct 2023)
item Plant-mediated effects of fire and fragmentation in drive plant-pollinator interaction Beta diversity in fire-dependent pine savannas. (Oct 2023)
item The influence of wildfire on invasive plant abundance and spatial structure in eastern ponderosa pine savanna (Sep 2023)
item Efficacy of a microalgal feed additive in commercial honey bee colonies used for crop pollination (Aug 2023)
item Cold storage as part of a Varroa management strategy: Effects on honey bee colony performance, mite levels and stress biomarkers (Jul 2023)
item Impacts of seasonality and parasitism on honey bee population dynamics (Jun 2023)
item Potassium ion channels as a druggable target to inhibit viral replication in honey bees (Jun 2023)
item The survival and growth of honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies overwintered in cold storage: the effects of time and colony location (Jun 2023)
item Observing bees and wasps: Why surveys and monitoring programs are critical and how they can improve our understanding of these beneficial hymenopterans (Jun 2023)
item Uninvited guests: Identifying parasites and other nest associates of solitary bees and wasps using artificial nest sites in north central Florida (Jun 2023)
item Single-cell dissection of a collective behaviour in honeybees (Jun 2023)
item The new wildfire season (Jun 2023)
item Transcriptomic analysis of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) queen brain reveals that gene expression is affected by pesticide exposure during development (Apr 2023)
item Sexual dimorphism in excess power index of four North American native bees (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae, Apidae, and Halictidae) (Apr 2023)
item Rough hives stimulate propolis production in support of bee health (Apr 2023)
item Hangry bees: Pollen deprivation affects temper in Pol-line honey bees (Apis mellifera) (Apr 2023)
item Baton Rouge scientist spotlight (Apr 2023)
item Accelerated abdominal lipid depletion from pesticide treatment alters honey bee pollen foraging strategy, but not onset, in worker honey bees (Apr 2023)
item Noteworthy collections North Dakota (Mar 2023)
item Confirmation of the Y215H mutation in the ß2-octopamine receptor in Varroa destructor is associated with contemporary cases of amitraz resistance in United States (Mar 2023)
item Artificial pollination of kiwifruit (Actinida chinensis Planch. var. chinensis)(Ericales: Actinidiaceae) results in greater fruit set compared to flowers pollinated by managed bees (Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) (Mar 2023)
item Vegetative vs. sexual reproduction varies widely in an invasive plant species across western North America (Mar 2023)
item Ecology of pollen storage in honey bees: Sugar tolerant yeast and the aerobic social microbiota (Mar 2023)
item The challenge of balancing fungicide use and pollinator health (Feb 2023)
item Genetic diversity and structure of Crupina vulgaris (common crupina): A noxious rangeland weed of the western United States (Feb 2023)
item Comparing three collection methods for pollinating insects within electric transmission rights-of-ways (Jan 2023)
item Genetic stock affects expression patterns of the multifunctional gene Vitellogenin in honey bee workers (Jan 2023)
item Effects of hive entrance orientation on honey bee colony activity (Jan 2023)
item A high-throughput sequencing survey characterizing European foulbrood disease and Varroosis in honey bees (Jan 2023)
item High genetic diversity in the landscape suggests frequent seedling recruitment by Euphorbia virgata Waldst. & Kit. (leafy spurge) in the northern U.S (Dec 2022)
item Changes in gut microbiota and metabolism associated with phenotypic plasticity in the honey bee Apis mellifera (Dec 2022)
item Fine-scale assessment of Chlorella syrup as a nutritional supplement for honey bee colonies (Dec 2022)
item Russian honey bee genotype identification through enhanced marker panel set (Nov 2022)
item A global assessment of the species composition and effectiveness of watermelon pollinators and the management strategies to inform effective pollination service delivery (Nov 2022)
item Uses and benefits of algae as a nutritional supplement for honey bees (Nov 2022)
item Comparison of two milkweed (Asclepias) sampling techniques on eastern Nebraska grasslands (Oct 2022)
item Pollination biology and insect visitation of pasqueflower (Ranunculaceae: Pulsatilla patens ssp. multifida) in the Little Missouri National Grasslands of North Dakota (Oct 2022)
item Viral species differentially influence macronutrient preferences based on honey bee genotype (Sep 2022)
item Field and cage studies show no effects of exposure to flonicamid on honey bees at field-relevant concentrations (Sep 2022)
item Seasonal variability in physiology and behavior affect the impact of fungicide exposure on honey bee (Apis mellifera) health (Aug 2022)
item Metabolomics-guided comparison of pollen and microalgae-based artificial diets in honey bees (Jul 2022)
item Simulating the effects of pesticides on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) colonies with BeePop+ (Jul 2022)
item Variation in reproductive mode across the latitudinal range of an invasive Russian knapweed (Jul 2022)
item Early queen development in honey bees: Social context and queen breeder source affect gut microbiota and associated metabolism (Jul 2022)
item Integration of scales and cameras in nondisruptive electronic beehive monitoring: On the within-day relationship of hive weight and traffic in honeybee (Apis mellifera) colonies in Langstroth hives in Tucson, Arizona, USA (Jun 2022)
item Methoxyfenozide has minimal effects on replacement queens but may negatively affect sperm storage (Jun 2022)
item Biological control of leafy spurge (Jun 2022)
item Honey bee genetic stock determines DWV symptom severity but not viral load or dissemination following pupal exposure (Jun 2022)
item Identifying the geographic origins of invasive Megathyrsus maximus in the United States using molecular data (May 2022)
item Colony-level viral load influences collective foraging in honey bees (May 2022)
item Coyote and porcupine spread Russian olive seeds through endozoochory (May 2022)
item Social Interaction is Unnecessary for Hindgut Microbiome Transmission in Honey Bees: The Effect of Diet and Social Exposure on Tissue-Specific Microbiome Assembly (May 2022)
item The story so far on amitraz resistance in Varroa (May 2022)
item Social apoptosis in Varroa mite resistant western honey bees (Apis mellifera) (Apr 2022)
item A derived honey bee stock confers resistance to Varroa destructor and associated viral transmission (Apr 2022)
item CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination (Mar 2022)
item Impact of multiple selective breeding programs on genetic diversity in soybean germplasm (Feb 2022)
item Prescribed fire and other fuel-reduction treatments alter ground spider assemblages in a Southern Appalachian hardwood forest (Feb 2022)
item High-intensity fire experiments to manage shrub encroachment: Lessons learned in South Africa and the United States (Feb 2022)
item Impact of honey bee migratory management on pathogen loads and immune gene expression is affected by complex interactions with environment, worker life history, and season (Feb 2022)
item Context-dependent viral transgenerational immune priming in honey bees (Hymenoptera: apidae) (Feb 2022)
item Genetic diversity and structure in a closed breeding system of Russian honey bees (Jan 2022)
item Differential expression of three dopamine receptors in varroa-resistant honey bees (Jan 2022)
item Effects of different artificial diets on commercial honey bee colony performance, health biomarkers, and gut microbiota (Jan 2022)
item Traces of a neonicotinoid pesticide stimulate different honey bee colony activities, but do not increase colony size or longevity (Jan 2022)
item Amitraz resistance, a concern in the U.S. too (Dec 2021)
item Prosopis glandulosa persistence is facilitated by differential protection of buds during low- and high-energy fires (Nov 2021)
item Review on mathematical modeling of honeybee population dynamics (Nov 2021)
item Host genotype and tissue type determine DWV infection intensity (Nov 2021)
item Parallel mechanisms of visual memory formation across distinct regions of the honey bee brain (Oct 2021)
item The active ingredients of a mitotoxic fungicide negatively affect pollen consumption and worker survival in laboratory-reared honey bees (Apis mellifera) (Oct 2021)
item Solar energy development impacts flower-visiting beetles and flies in the Mojave Desert (Oct 2021)
item Prescribed burning communication kit (Sep 2021)
item A common fungicide, Pristine®, impairs olfactory associative learning performance in honey bees (Apis mellifera) (Jul 2021)
item Nutrigenetic comparison of two Varroa-resistant honey bee stocks fed pollen and spirulina microalgae (Jul 2021)
item First report of Mummenhoffia alliacea (Brassicaceae)for New York (Jun 2021)
item A rapid fabrication methodology for payload modules, piloted for the observation of queen honeybee (Apis mellifera) in microgravity (May 2021)
item Diversity and origins of Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush) invasion in North America (May 2021)
item A scientific note defining allelic nomenclature standards for the highly diverse complementary sex-determiner (csd) locus in honey bees. (May 2021)
item Field cross-fostering and in vitro rearing demonstrate negative effects of both larval and adult exposure to a widely used fungicide in honey bees (Apis mellifera) (Apr 2021)
item The importance of time and place: Nutrient composition and utilization of seasonal pollens by European honey bees (Apis mellifera L. (Mar 2021)
item Overwintering honey bee colonies: Effect of worker age and climate on the Hindgut Microbiota (Mar 2021)
item Effects of aversive conditioning on expression of physiological stress in honey bees (apis mellifera) (Feb 2021)
item Genetic variation of Ascosphaera apis and colony attributes do not explain chalkbrood disease outbreaks in Australian honey bees (Jan 2021)
item Consumption of field-realistic doses of a widely used mito-toxic fungicide reduces thorax mass but does not negatively impact flight capacities of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) (Jan 2021)
item Honey bee proteome responses to plant and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) diets (Dec 2020)
item Genome-wide patterns of differentiation within and across U.S. commercial honey bee stocks (Oct 2020)
item Differences in larval pesticide tolerance and esterase activity across honey bee (Apis mellifera) stocks (Sep 2020)
item Propolis envelope promotes beneficial bacteria in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) mouthpart microbiome (Jul 2020)
item Genome-wide patterns of genetic differentiation within and across U.S. commercial honey bee stocks (Jun 2020)
item Probing the honey bee diet-microbiota-host axis using pollen restriction and organic acid feeding (May 2020)
item Reclassification of seven honey bee symbiont strains as Bombella apis (May 2020)