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

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Scaling up effects of measures mitigating pollinator loss from local- to landscape-level population responses

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(2018) Lynn S. Adler et al.   ECOLOGY

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Establishment of wildflower fields in poor quality landscapes enhances micro-parasite prevalence in wild bumble bees

(2018) Niels Piot et al.   OECOLOGIA

Vegetation Management and Host Density Influence Bee–Parasite Interactions in Urban Gardens

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Pest Control and Pollination Cost–Benefit Analysis of Hedgerow Restoration in a Simplified Agricultural Landscape

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Effects of pollen dilution on infection of Nosema ceranae in honey bees

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How landscape, pollen intake and pollen quality affect colony growth in Bombus terrestris

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Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

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Varroa destructor Mites Can Nimbly Climb from Flowers onto Foraging Honey Bees

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Native wildflower plantings support wild bee abundance and diversity in agricultural landscapes across the United States

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

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Secondary metabolites in floral nectar reduce parasite infections in bumblebees

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

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Possible Synergistic Effects of Thymol and Nicotine against Crithidia bombi Parasitism in Bumble Bees

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(2014) JESSICA ABBOTT   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Arranging the bouquet of disease: floral traits and the transmission of plant and animal pathogens

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Flower plantings increase wild bee abundance and the pollination services provided to a pollination-dependent crop

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Using observation-level random effects to model overdispersion in count data in ecology and evolution

(2014) Xavier A. Harrison   PeerJ

Hedgerow restoration promotes pollinator populations and exports native bees to adjacent fields

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Influence of Pollen Nutrition on Honey Bee Health: Do Pollen Quality and Diversity Matter?

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Creating patches of native flowers facilitates crop pollination in large agricultural fields: mango as a case study

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An overview of parasite-induced behavioral alterations - and some lessons from bats

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Generalized linear mixed models: a practical guide for ecology and evolution

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Validation of a Method Using Queenless Bombus terrestris Micro-Colonies for Testing the Nutritive Value of Commercial Pollen Mixes by Comparison with Queenright Colonies

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