The worldwide importance of honey bees as pollinators in natural habitats

Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate honey bee foraging reveals limited flower use despite high floral availability

(2017) Natasha de Vere et al.   Scientific Reports

Honeybee spillover reshuffles pollinator diets and affects plant reproductive success

(2017) Ainhoa Magrach et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Local bumble bee decline linked to recovery of honey bees, drought effects on floral resources

(2016) Diane M. Thomson   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Role of Honey Bees as Pollinators in Natural Areas

(2016) Clare E. Aslan et al.   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

(2016) Simon G. Potts et al.   NATURE

Experimental evidence that honeybees depress wild insect densities in a flowering crop

(2016) Sandra A. M. Lindström et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Deformed wing virus is a recent global epidemic in honeybees driven by Varroa mites

(2016) L. Wilfert et al.   SCIENCE

Do managed bees drive parasite spread and emergence in wild bees?

(2016) Peter Graystock et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Positive and Negative Impacts of Non-Native Bee Species around the World

(2016) Laura Russo   Insects

How Honey Bee Colonies Survive in the Wild: Testing the Importance of Small Nests and Frequent Swarming

(2016) J. Carter Loftus et al.   PLoS One

Range and Frequency of Africanized Honey Bees in California (USA)

(2015) Yoshiaki Kono et al.   PLoS One

Native and Non-Native Supergeneralist Bee Species Have Different Effects on Plant-Bee Networks

(2015) Tereza C. Giannini et al.   PLoS One

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

Constructing more informative plant–pollinator networks: visitation and pollen deposition networks in a heathland plant community

(2015) G. Ballantyne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Geographical variation in mutualistic networks: similarity, turnover and partner fidelity

(2015) K. Trojelsgaard 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

glmulti: AnRPackage for Easy Automated Model Selection with (Generalized) Linear Models

(2015) Vincent Calcagno et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Domesticated honey bees evolutionarily reduce flower nectar volume in a Tibetan lotus

(2014) Junpeng Mu et al.   ECOLOGY

Extremely frequent bee visits increase pollen deposition but reduce drupelet set in raspberry

(2014) Agustín Sáez et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

When mutualism goes bad: density-dependent impacts of introduced bees on plant reproduction

(2014) Marcelo A. Aizen et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Parasite Pressures on Feral Honey Bees (Apis mellifera sp.)

(2014) Catherine E. Thompson et al.   PLoS One

Identifying the Real Pollinators? Exotic Honeybees Are the Dominant Flower Visitors and Only Effective Pollinators of Avicennia marina in Australian Temperate Mangroves

(2013) Tyge D. Hermansen et al.   Estuaries and Coasts

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

(2013) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   SCIENCE

Shifts in pollinator composition and behavior cause slow interaction accumulation with area in plant–pollinator networks

(2012) Laura A. Burkle et al.   ECOLOGY

Invasive species management restores a plant-pollinator mutualism in Hawaii

(2012) Cause Hanna et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2012) Nicholas W. Calderone   PLoS One

How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?

(2011) Jeff Ollerton et al.   OIKOS

Overplaying the role of honey bees as pollinators: a comment on Aebi and Neumann (2011)

(2011) Jeff Ollerton et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Back to the future: Apis versus non-Apis pollination—a response to Ollerton et al.

(2011) Alexandre Aebi et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Research strategies to improve honeybee health in Europe

(2010) Robin F.A. Moritz et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Alien pollinator promotes invasive mutualism in an insular pollination system

(2010) Tetsuto Abe et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Intra-floral resource partitioning between endemic and invasive flower visitors: consequences for pollinator effectiveness

(2010) ROBERT R. JUNKER et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Effects of experimental shifts in flowering phenology on plant-pollinator interactions

(2010) Nicole E. Rafferty et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Plant-pollinator network assembly along the chronosequence of a glacier foreland

(2010) Matthias Albrecht et al.   OIKOS

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Biodiversity, conservation and current threats to European honeybees

(2009) Pilar De la Rúa et al.   APIDOLOGIE

A meta-analysis of bees' responses to anthropogenic disturbance

(2009) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY

Are honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) native to the British Isles?

(2008) N L Carreck   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

A Survey of Honey Bee Colony Losses in the U.S., Fall 2007 to Spring 2008

(2008) Dennis vanEngelsdorp et al.   PLoS One