Wild bumble bee foraging preferences and fat content in highbush blueberry agro-ecosystems

Pollen Foraging Differences Among Three Managed Pollinators in the Highbush Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) Agroecosystem

(2017) Kyle Bobiwash et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Diet effects on bumblebee health

(2017) Nathalie Roger et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Interspecific Variation in Bumblebee Performance on Pollen Diet: New Insights for Mitigation Strategies

(2017) Romain Moerman et al.   PLoS One

Ecological stoichiometry of the honeybee: Pollen diversity and adequate species composition are needed to mitigate limitations imposed on the growth and development of bees by pollen quality

(2017) Michał Filipiak et al.   PLoS One

Assessment of pollen rewards by foraging bees

(2016) Elizabeth Nicholls et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Macronutrient ratios in pollen shape bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging strategies and floral preferences

(2016) Anthony D. Vaudo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wildflower plantings enhance the abundance of natural enemies and their services in adjacent blueberry fields

(2015) Brett R. Blaauw et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Honey bee diet in intensive farmland habitats reveals an unexpectedly high flower richness and a major role of weeds

(2015) Fabrice Requier et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2015) Neal M. Williams et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

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

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

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

Seasonal trends in the condition of nesting females of a solitary bee: wing wear, lipid content, and oocyte size

(2015) Kevin M. O’Neill et al.   PeerJ

Wild bumble bees reduce pollination deficits in a crop mostly visited by managed honey bees

(2014) Lindsey Button et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Pollen and nectar quality drive the major and minor floral choices of bumble bees

(2014) Laurent Somme et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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

(2014) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   PLoS One

Waggle Dance Distances as Integrative Indicators of Seasonal Foraging Challenges

(2014) Margaret J. Couvillon et al.   PLoS One

Inter-tegular span and head width as estimators of fresh and dry body mass in bumblebees (Bombus spp.)

(2013) M. Hagen et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Food production vs. biodiversity: comparing organic and conventional agriculture

(2013) Doreen Gabriel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Chemical composition of the ‘low quality’ pollen of sunflower (Helianthus annuus, Asteraceae)

(2012) Susan Wendy Nicolson et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Pollen diversity collected by honey bees in the vicinity of Vaccinium spp. crops and its importance for colony development1This article is part of a Special Issue entitled “Pollination biology research in Canada: Perspectives on a mutualism at different scales”.

(2012) Mélissa Girard et al.   Botany

The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies

(2011) Sara Diana Leonhardt et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Triacylglyceride measurement in small quantities of homogenised insect tissue: Comparisons and caveats

(2011) Caroline M. Williams et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Diet effects on honeybee immunocompetence

(2010) C. Alaux et al.   Biology Letters

Insect Fat Body: Energy, Metabolism, and Regulation

(2009) Estela L. Arrese et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Nutritional stress due to habitat loss may explain recent honeybee colony collapses

(2009) Dhruba Naug   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Consequences of organic and non-organic farming practices for field, farm and landscape complexity

(2008) Lisa Norton et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

(2008) Jean-Noël Tasei et al.   APIDOLOGIE

The ontogeny of immunity: Development of innate immune strength in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)

(2008) Noah Wilson-Rich et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY