Overview of Bee Pollination and Its Economic Value for Crop Production

Use of a Managed Solitary Bee to Pollinate Almonds: Population Sustainability and Increased Fruit Set

(2021) Jordi Bosch et al.   Insects

Can Colony Size of Honeybees (Apis mellifera) Be Used as Predictor for Colony Losses Due to Varroa destructor during Winter?

(2021) Coby van Dooremalen et al.   Agriculture-Basel

Gone with the wind: effects of wind on honey bee visit rate and foraging behaviour

(2020) Georgia Hennessy et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Bees increase crop yield in an alleged pollinator-independent almond variety

(2020) Agustin Sáez et al.   Scientific Reports

Native honeybees as flower visitors and pollinators in wild plant communities in a biodiversity hotspot

(2020) Dara A. Stanley et al.   Ecosphere

Built environments influence carpenter bee sociality and vice versa

(2020) M. H. Richards   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Bee Visitation and Fruit Quality in Berries Under Protected Cropping Vary Along the Length of Polytunnels

(2020) Mark A Hall et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Floral vibrations by buzz-pollinating bees achieve higher frequency, velocity and acceleration than flight and defence vibrations

(2020) David J. Pritchard et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Model approaches to estimate spatial distribution of bee species richness and soybean production in the Brazilian Cerrado during 2000 to 2015

(2020) Dong Luo et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Buzz pollination

(2020) David J. Pritchard et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Value of Crop Production and Pollination Services in the Eastern Amazon

(2020) R C Borges et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Flower traits associated with the visitation patterns of bees

(2020) Logan Rowe et al.   OECOLOGIA

Disentangling the effects of local resources, landscape heterogeneity and climatic seasonality on bee diversity and plant-pollinator networks in tropical highlands

(2020) Natalia Escobedo-Kenefic et al.   OECOLOGIA

Australian native flower colours: Does nectar reward drive bee pollinator flower preferences?

(2020) Mani Shrestha et al.   PLoS One

Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators

(2020) J. R. Reilly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The origins of flowering plants and pollinators

(2020) Casper J. van der Kooi et al.   SCIENCE

Honey bees and wild pollinators differ in their preference for and use of introduced floral resources

(2020) Christine Urbanowicz et al.   Ecology and Evolution

The Role of Flies as Pollinators of Horticultural Crops: An Australian Case Study with Worldwide Relevance

(2020) David F Cook et al.   Insects

A Native Bee, Melissodes tepaneca (Hymenoptera: Apidae), Benefits Cotton Production

(2020) Isaac L. Esquivel et al.   Insects

Land-Use and Climate Impacts on Plant–Pollinator Interactions and Pollination Services

(2020) Bo Dalsgaard   Diversity-Basel

Significance of Apoidea as Main Pollinators. Ecological and Economic Impact and Implications for Human Nutrition

(2020) Peter Hristov et al.   Diversity-Basel

Crop pollination services: complementary resource use by social vs solitary bees facing crops with contrasting flower supply

(2020) Svenja Bänsch et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Commercial bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) hives under exclusion netting systems for apple pollination in orchards

(2020) Mélanie Normandeau Bonneau et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Light intensity regulates flower visitation in Neotropical nocturnal bees

(2020) Rodolfo Liporoni et al.   Scientific Reports

Pollinator-mediated self-pollination and reproductive assurance in an isolated tree of Magnolia grandiflora L.

(2020) Arun Sukumaran et al.   Ecological Processes

Bee abundance and soil nitrogen availability interactively modulate apple quality and quantity in intensive agricultural landscapes of China

(2020) Panlong Wu et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Hand pollination and natural pollination by carpenter bees (Xylocopa spp.) in Passiflora edulis Sims. f. flavicarpa Deg. (yellow passion fruit)

(2020) Wilfredo B. Barrera et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Tools to Tie: Flower Characteristics, VOC Emission Profile, and Glandular Trichomes of Two Mexican Salvia Species to Attract Bees

(2020) Claudia Giuliani et al.   Plants-Basel

In Vivo Pollen Tube Growth and Evidence of Self-Pollination and Prefloral Anthesis in cv. Macabeo (Vitis vinifera L.)

(2020) Francisco García-Breijo et al.   Agriculture-Basel

The influence of floral resources and microclimate on pollinator visitation in an agro-ecosystem

(2020) Sara Guiti Prado et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Spatial ecology of a range-expanding bumble bee pollinator

(2019) Liam P. Crowther et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Humidity-tolerant rate-dependent capillary viscous adhesion of bee-collected pollen fluids

(2019) Donglee Shin et al.   Nature Communications

Foraging strategies and physiological adaptations in large carpenter bees

(2019) Hema Somanathan et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY

Chronic toxicity and biochemical response of Apis cerana cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae) exposed to acetamiprid and propiconazole alone or combined

(2019) Wensu Han et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

Visitor or vector? The extent of rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) pollination and floral interactions

(2019) Thomas D. J. Sayers et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Botanical and synthetic pesticides alter the flower visitation rates of pollinator bees in Neotropical melon fields

(2019) Paulo Henrique Tschoeke et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Wind pollination over 70 years reduces the negative genetic effects of severe forest fragmentation in the tropical oak Quercus bambusifolia

(2019) Xueqin Zeng et al.   HEREDITY

Economic Valuation of Bee Pollination Services for Passion Fruit (Malpighiales: Passifloraceae) Cultivation on Smallholding Farms in São Paulo, Brazil, Using the Avoided Cost Method

(2019) Allan E Popak et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Wild pollinator activity negatively related to honey bee colony densities in urban context

(2019) Lise Ropars et al.   PLoS One

Assessing blue orchard bee (Osmia lignaria) propagation and pollination services in the presence of honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Utah tart cherries

(2019) Natalie K. Boyle et al.   PeerJ

Transcriptomic analysis reveals Apis mellifera adaptations to high temperature and high humidity

(2019) Weihua Ma et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY

Honeybee Pollinators Use Visual and Floral Scent Cues to Find Apple (Malus domestica) Flowers

(2019) Melanie Rachersberger et al.   JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY

Valuing nature's contribution to people: The pollination services provided by two protected areas in Brazil

(2019) Juliana Hipólito et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Effects of landscape composition on bee communities and coffee pollination in Coffea arabica production forests in southwestern Ethiopia

(2019) Lore Geeraert et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Field design can affect cross-pollination and crop yield in strawberry (Fragaria x ananassa D.)

(2019) Gail MacInnis et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Reconciling biodiversity conservation, food production and farmers’ demand in agricultural landscapes

(2019) Daniel Montoya et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Butterflies provide pollination services to macadamia in northeastern Brazil

(2019) Ramon da Silva Santos et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

The evolution of floral sonication, a pollen foraging behavior used by bees (Anthophila)

(2018) Sophie Cardinal et al.   EVOLUTION

The worldwide importance of honey bees as pollinators in natural habitats

(2018) Keng-Lou James Hung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Flower preferences and pollen transport networks for cavity-nesting solitary bees: Implications for the design of agri-environment schemes

(2018) Catherine E. A. Gresty et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Feedbacks between nutrition and disease in honey bee health

(2018) Adam G .Dolezal et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Bees increase oilseed rape yield under real field conditions

(2018) Thomas Perrot et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Positive effects of the pollinators Osmia cornuta (Megachilidae) and Lucilia sericata (Calliphoridae) on strawberry quality

(2018) John David Herrmann et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Insect pollination is at least as important for marketable crop yield as plant quality in a seed crop

(2018) Thijs P. M. Fijen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Endocrine disruption and chronic effects of plant protection products in bees: Can we better protect our pollinators?

(2018) Verena Christen et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Pollinator Preferences for Floral Volatiles Emitted by Dimorphic Anthers of a Buzz-Pollinated Herb

(2018) L. Solís-Montero et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

OUP accepted manuscript

(2018)   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Social wasps, crickets and cockroaches contribute to pollination of the holoparasitic plant Mitrastemon yamamotoi (Mitrastemonaceae) in southern Japan

(2018) K. Suetsugu   PLANT BIOLOGY

Foraging bumblebees acquire a preference for neonicotinoid-treated food with prolonged exposure

(2018) Andres N. Arce et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Diverse Factors Affecting Efficiency of RNAi in Honey Bee Viruses

(2018) Dahe Yang et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Synergistic effects of pathogen and pesticide exposure on honey bee (Apis mellifera) survival and immunity

(2018) Julia Grassl et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY

Buzz pollination: Studying bee vibrations on flowers

(2018) Mario Vallejo-Marín   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Effects of nectar contents on the foraging activity of honeybee (Apis mellifera) on Asian pear (Pyrus pyrifolia Nakai)

(2018) Ho-Jin Seo et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

Annual cover crops for managed and wild bees: Optimal plant mixtures depend on pollinator enhancement goals

(2018) Rachel E. Mallinger et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

How efficient is the Asian honey bee, Apis cerana in pollinating mustard, Brassica campestris var. toria? Pollination behavior, pollinator efficiency, pollinator requirements and impact of pollination

(2017) Johnson Stanley et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Bee visitation rates to cultivated sunflowers increase with the amount and accessibility of nectar sugars

(2017) R. E. Mallinger et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY

Neonicotinoid pesticides and nutritional stress synergistically reduce survival in honey bees

(2017) Simone Tosi et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Risk assessment of pesticides and other stressors in bees: Principles, data gaps and perspectives from the European Food Safety Authority

(2017) Agnès Rortais et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Agrochemical synergism imposes higher risk to Neotropical bees than to honeybees

(2017) Hudson V. V. Tomé et al.   Royal Society Open Science

A pan-European epidemiological study reveals honey bee colony survival depends on beekeeper education and disease control

(2017) Antoine Jacques et al.   PLoS One

ATP-sensitive inwardly rectifying potassium channel regulation of viral infections in honey bees

(2017) Scott T. O’Neal et al.   Scientific Reports

Bee pollination increases yield quantity and quality of cash crops in Burkina Faso, West Africa

(2017) Katharina Stein et al.   Scientific Reports

Concealed floral rewards and the role of experience in floral sonication by bees

(2016) Avery L. Russell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The secret pollinators: an overview of moth pollination with a focus on Europe and North America

(2016) Melanie Hahn et al.   Arthropod-Plant Interactions

Food Limitation Affects Parasite Load and Survival ofBombus impatiens(Hymenoptera: Apidae) Infected WithCrithidia(Trypanosomatida: Trypanosomatidae)

(2016) Taylor J. Conroy et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

(2016) Simon G. Potts et al.   NATURE

Comparing the pollination services of honey bees and wild bees in a watermelon field

(2016) Nikos Garantonakis et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

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

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

Butterflies visit more frequently, but bees are better pollinators: the importance of mouthpart dimensions in effective pollen removal and deposition

(2016) Beyte Barrios et al.   AoB Plants

Apple Pollination: Demand Depends on Variety and Supply Depends on Pollinator Identity

(2016) M. P. D. Garratt et al.   PLoS One

The Dependence of Crops for Pollinators and the Economic Value of Pollination in Brazil

(2015) T. C. Giannini et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Bees, birds and yellow flowers: pollinator-dependent convergent evolution of UV patterns

(2015) S. Papiorek et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY

Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

(2015) Romina Rader et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

(2015) David Kleijn et al.   Nature Communications

Buzz pollination in eight bumblebee-pollinated Pedicularis species: does it involve vibration-induced triboelectric charging of pollen grains?

(2014) Sarah A. Corbet et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Pollination by nocturnal Lepidoptera, and the effects of light pollution: a review

(2014) CALLUM J. MACGREGOR et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Species richness of wild bees, but not the use of managed honeybees, increases fruit set of a pollinator-dependent crop

(2014) Rachel E. Mallinger et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Comparison of pollination and defensive buzzes in bumblebees indicates species-specific and context-dependent vibrations

(2014) Paul A. De Luca et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Contribution of insect pollinators to crop yield and quality varies with agricultural intensification

(2014) Ignasi Bartomeus et al.   PeerJ

Stingless bees, Melipona fasciculata, as efficient pollinators of eggplant (Solanum melongena) in greenhouses

(2013) Patrícia Nunes-Silva et al.   APIDOLOGIE

What's the ‘buzz’ about? The ecology and evolutionary significance of buzz-pollination

(2013) Paul A De Luca et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PLANT BIOLOGY

Higher soybean production using honeybee and wild pollinators, a sustainable alternative to pesticides and autopollination

(2013) Marcelo de O. Milfont et al.   Environmental Chemistry Letters

Sex and Caste-Specific Variation in Compound Eye Morphology of Five Honeybee Species

(2013) Martin Streinzer et al.   PLoS One

Bee pollination improves crop quality, shelf life and commercial value

(2013) B. K. Klatt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Effects of natural and artificial pollination on fruit and offspring quality

(2012) Alexander Chautá-Mellizo et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Status of pollinators and their efficiency in coffee fruit set in a fragmented landscape mosaic in South India

(2012) Smitha Krishnan et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Landscapes with wild bee habitats enhance pollination, fruit set and yield of sweet cherry

(2012) Andrea Holzschuh et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Flower movement increases pollinator preference for flowers with better grip

(2012) Katrina Alcorn et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Hummingbird color preference within a natural hybrid population ofMimulus aurantiacus(Phrymaceae)

(2012) Corinne Handelman et al.   PLANT SPECIES BIOLOGY

Spatial and Temporal Trends of Global Pollination Benefit

(2012) Sven Lautenbach et al.   PLoS One

Insect Pollinated Crops, Insect Pollinators and US Agriculture: Trend Analysis of Aggregate Data for the Period 1992–2009

(2012) Nicholas W. Calderone   PLoS One

Honey bee visitation to sunflower: effects on pollination and plant genotype

(2012) Emerson Dechechi Chambó et al.   SCIENTIA AGRICOLA

Is manual pollination of yellow passion fruit completely dispensable?

(2012) Murilo V. Silveira et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

Pollination efficiency of wild bees and hoverflies provided to oilseed rape

(2011) Frank Jauker et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Pollination services in the UK: How important are honeybees?

(2011) T.D. Breeze et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Floral Biology and Breeding System of Angadenia berteroi (Apocynaceae): Why Do Flowers of the Pineland Golden Trumpet Produce Few Fruits?

(2011) Beyte Barrios et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Determining the Contribution of Epidermal Cell Shape to Petal Wettability Using Isogenic Antirrhinum Lines

(2011) Heather M. Whitney et al.   PLoS One

The ‘night shift’: nocturnal pollen-transport networks in a boreal pine forest

(2010) MARIANO DEVOTO et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Pollination services provided to small and large highbush blueberry fields by wild and managed bees

(2010) Rufus Isaacs et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pollination of cucumber, Cucumis sativus L. (Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae), by the stingless bees Scaptotrigona aff. depilis moure and Nannotrigona testaceicornis Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) in greenhouses

(2010) Solange A.B. dos Santos et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ecosystem services and agriculture: tradeoffs and synergies

(2010) A. G. Power   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production

(2009) Marcelo A. Aizen et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Conical Epidermal Cells Allow Bees to Grip Flowers and Increase Foraging Efficiency

(2009) Heather M. Whitney et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Differences between the quality of strawberries (Fragaria x ananassa) pollinated by the stingless bees Scaptotrigona aff. depilis and Nannotrigona testaceicornis

(2009) A.C. Roselino et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH

Economic Benefit of Crop Pollination by Bees: A Case of Kakamega Small-Holder Farming in Western Kenya

(2009) J. M. Kasina et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Colony Collapse Disorder: A Descriptive Study

(2009) Dennis vanEngelsdorp et al.   PLoS One

Honey bee as an effective pollinating agent of pumpkin

(2009) Daniel Nicodemo et al.   SCIENTIA AGRICOLA

Behavioural environments and niche construction: the evolution of dim-light foraging in bees

(2008) William T. Wcislo et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Orchids Mimic Green-Leaf Volatiles to Attract Prey-Hunting Wasps for Pollination

(2008) Jennifer Brodmann et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline

(2008) Nicola Gallai et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Nectar usage in a southern Arizona hawkmoth community

(2008) RUBEN ALARCN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

(2008) Taylor H. Ricketts et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Hover flies are efficient pollinators of oilseed rape

(2008) Frank Jauker et al.   OECOLOGIA

Do consecutive flower visits within a crown diminish fruit set in mass-flowering Hancornia speciosa (Apocynaceae)?

(2008) C. E. Pinto et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY