Bumble bee parasite prevalence but not genetic diversity impacted by the invasive plant Impatiens glandulifera

Pollen from multiple sunflower cultivars and species reduces a common bumblebee gut pathogen

(2019) George M. LoCascio et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Disease where you dine: Plant species and floral traits associated with pathogen transmission in bumble bees

(2018) Lynn S. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY

Medicinal value of sunflower pollen against bee pathogens

(2018) Jonathan J. Giacomini et al.   Scientific Reports

Stressful conditions reveal decrease in size, modification of shape but relatively stable asymmetry in bumblebee wings

(2018) Maxence Gerard et al.   Scientific Reports

Larvae act as a transient transmission hub for the prevalent bumblebee parasite Crithidia bombi

(2017) Arran J. Folly et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Bumblebee family lineage survival is enhanced in high-quality landscapes

(2017) Claire Carvell et al.   NATURE

Microsporidia: An Emerging Threat to Bumblebees?

(2017) M.J.F. Brown   TRENDS IN PARASITOLOGY

Asteraceae Pollen Provisions Protect Osmia Mason Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from Brood Parasitism

(2016) Dakota M. Spear et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Nectar chemistry mediates the behavior of parasitized bees: consequences for plant fitness

(2016) Leif L. Richardson et al.   ECOLOGY

Direct interactions between invasive plants and native pollinators: evidence, impacts and approaches

(2016) Jane C. Stout et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Impact of pollen resources drift on common bumblebees in NW Europe

(2016) Nathalie Roger et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Is non-host pollen suitable for generalist bumblebees?

(2016) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   Insect Science

Large pathogen screening reveals first report of Megaselia scalaris (Diptera: Phoridae) parasitizing Apis mellifera intermissa (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2016) Ahmed Hichem Menail et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Flavonoids from the flowers ofImpatiens glanduliferaRoyle isolated by high performance countercurrent chromatography

(2016) Mariana N. Vieira et al.   PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS

Landscape Simplification Constrains Adult Size in a Native Ground-Nesting Bee

(2016) Miles Renauld et al.   PLoS One

Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England

(2016) Ben A. Woodcock et al.   Nature Communications

Nectar chemistry modulates the impact of an invasive plant on native pollinators

(2015) Erin Jo Tiedeken et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Growth Rate of Bumblebee Larvae is Related to Pollen Amino Acids

(2015) Romain Moerman et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Targeted agri-environment schemes significantly improve the population size of common farmland bumblebee species

(2015) Thomas J. Wood et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Parasites in bloom: flowers aid dispersal and transmission of pollinator parasites within and between bee species

(2015) Peter Graystock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Secondary metabolites in floral nectar reduce parasite infections in bumblebees

(2015) L. L. Richardson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

(2015) J. T. Kerr et al.   SCIENCE

Bee nutrition and floral resource restoration

(2015) Anthony D Vaudo et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Pathogen-associated self-medication behavior in the honeybee Apis mellifera

(2014) Bogdan I. Gherman et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Herbivore Defence Compounds Occur in Pollen and Reduce Bumblebee Colony Fitness

(2014) Sarah E. J. Arnold et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

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(2014) E. J. Tiedeken et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Fine-scale spatial genetic structure of common and declining bumble bees across an agricultural landscape

(2014) Stephanie Dreier et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

How Does Pollen Chemistry Impact Development and Feeding Behaviour of Polylectic Bees?

(2014) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   PLoS One

Museum specimens reveal loss of pollen host plants as key factor driving wild bee decline in The Netherlands

(2014) Jeroen Scheper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Protein-poor diet reduces host-specific immune gene expression in Bombus terrestris

(2014) F. S. Brunner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The relationship between managed bees and the prevalence of parasites in bumblebees

(2014) Peter Graystock et al.   PeerJ

Invasive alien plants affect grassland ant communities, colony size and foraging behaviour

(2013) Magdalena Lenda et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Emerging dangers: Deadly effects of an emergent parasite in a new pollinator host

(2013) Peter Graystock et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Comprehensive Bee Pathogen Screening in Belgium Reveals Crithidia mellificae as a New Contributory Factor to Winter Mortality

(2013) Jorgen Ravoet et al.   PLoS One

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(2013) Marie-Pierre Chauzat et al.   PLoS One

Caffeine in Floral Nectar Enhances a Pollinator's Memory of Reward

(2013) G. A. Wright et al.   SCIENCE

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(2012) R. Peakall et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

DYNAMIC TRANSMISSION, HOST QUALITY, AND POPULATION STRUCTURE IN A MULTIHOST PARASITE OF BUMBLEBEES

(2012) Mario X. Ruiz-González et al.   EVOLUTION

Computationally Efficient Sibship and Parentage Assignment from Multilocus Marker Data

(2012) J. Wang   GENETICS

Variability in bumblebee pollination buzzes affects the quantity of pollen released from flowers

(2012) Paul A. De Luca et al.   OECOLOGIA

The influence of an invasive plant species on the pollination success and reproductive output of three riparian plant species

(2011) Koen W. Thijs et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Effects of Invasive Parasites on Bumble Bee Declines

(2011) IVAN MEEUS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

FOOD-ENVIRONMENT MEDIATES THE OUTCOME OF SPECIFIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN A BUMBLEBEE AND ITS TRYPANOSOME PARASITE

(2011) Ben M. Sadd   EVOLUTION

Diversity of Nosema associated with bumblebees (Bombus spp.) from China

(2011) Jilian Li et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

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(2011) Jeff Ollerton et al.   OIKOS

Small worker bumble bees (Bombus impatiens) are hardier against starvation than their larger sisters

(2010) M. J. Couvillon et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Estimation of bumblebee queen dispersal distances using sibship reconstruction method

(2010) OLIVIER LEPAIS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Hovenia dulcis– An Asian Traditional Herb

(2010) Tae Hyun et al.   PLANTA MEDICA

Genetic diversity, parasite prevalence and immunity in wild bumblebees

(2010) P. R. Whitehorn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The impacts of an invasive alien plant and its removal on native bees

(2009) Caroline Marijke Nienhuis et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Bumblebee vulnerability and conservation world-wide

(2009) Paul H. Williams et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Body size variation in insects: a macroecological perspective

(2009) Steven L. Chown et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Comparison of effects of green tea catechins on apicomplexan hexose transporters and mammalian orthologues

(2009) Ksenija Slavic et al.   MOLECULAR AND BIOCHEMICAL PARASITOLOGY

COLONY: a program for parentage and sibship inference from multilocus genotype data

(2009) OWEN R. JONES et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Consumption of a nectar alkaloid reduces pathogen load in bumble bees

(2009) Jessamyn S. Manson et al.   OECOLOGIA

South American native bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) infected byNosema ceranae(Microsporidia), an emerging pathogen of honeybees (Apis mellifera)

(2009) Santiago Plischuk et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Within colony dynamics ofNosema bombiinfections: disease establishment, epidemiology and potential vertical transmission

(2008) Samina T. Rutrecht et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Pollen hosts of western palaearctic bees of the genus Colletes (Hymenoptera: Colletidae): the Asteraceae paradox

(2008) ANDREAS MÜLLER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF POLLEN HOST PLANT USE BY STABLE AND DECLINING BUMBLE BEE SPECIES

(2008) David Kleijn et al.   ECOLOGY

Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Jason M. Tylianakis et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Generalist foraging of pollinators: diet expansion at high density

(2008) Colin Fontaine et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Decline and Conservation of Bumble Bees

(2007) D. Goulson et al.   Annual Review of Entomology