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Assessing Chemical Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Sunflower Pollen on a Gut Pathogen in Bumble Bees

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Bee Viruses: Ecology, Pathogenicity, and Impacts

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

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Trait-Based Modeling of Multihost Pathogen Transmission: Plant-Pollinator Networks

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For antagonists and mutualists: the paradox of insect toxic secondary metabolites in nectar and pollen

(2019) Philip C. Stevenson   PHYTOCHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Flowers as viral hot spots: Honey bees (Apis mellifera) unevenly deposit viruses across plant species

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Random species loss underestimates dilution effects of host diversity on foliar fungal diseases under fertilization

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Consistent pollen nutritional intake drives bumble bee (Bombus impatiens ) colony growth and reproduction across different habitats

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

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Medicinal value of sunflower pollen against bee pathogens

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

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A ‘Landscape physiology’ approach for assessing bee health highlights the benefits of floral landscape enrichment and semi-natural habitats

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

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Test of the invasive pathogen hypothesis of bumble bee decline in North America

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

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The effects of single and mixed infections of Apicystis bombi and deformed wing virus in Bombus terrestris

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

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Higher plant diversity promotes higher diversity of fungal pathogens, while it decreases pathogen infection per plant

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

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Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators

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Linking manipulative experiments to field data to test the dilution effect

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

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

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Assessing declines of North American bumble bees (Bombus spp.) using museum specimens

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(2011) Wenjun Peng et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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(2011) Sarah E. Haas et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Interspecific geographic distribution and variation of the pathogens Nosema bombi and Crithidia species in United States bumble bee populations

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The Sensitivity of Microscopy and PCR-Based Detection Methods Affecting Estimates of Prevalence of Blood Parasites in Birds

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Nutritive value of 15 single pollens and pollen mixes tested on larvae produced by bumblebee workers (Bombus terrestris, Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Does Pathogen Spillover from Commercially Reared Bumble Bees Threaten Wild Pollinators?

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