Recent Publications Regarding Native Bees

With pollinator populations declining, there is lots of interest in the field of native bees, regarding plant-pollinator interactions, the role of bees in agriculture, the response of bees to pesticides, and so forth. Find some selected recent publications down below:

Bees and agriculture:
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Bee physiology:

Bee and non-bee pollinator importance for local food security

Requier, Fabrice; Pérez-Méndez, Nestor; Andersson, Georg K.S.; Blareau, Elsa; Merle, Isabelle; Garibaldi, Lucas A. Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam), 2023, Vol.38 (2), p.196-205

​keywords: agriculture; bees; crop yields; ecosystem services; food security; local food; pollination

Farmers' delivery of floral resources: to "bee" or not to "bee"

Nottebrock, Henning; Burchfield, Emily K.; Fenster, Charles B. American journal of botany, 2022, Vol.109 (1), p.4-8

keywords: agriculture; bee health; bees; biodiversity; conservation agriculture; ecosystem services; farmers; flowers; pollination; socioeconomic factors

Carpenter bees (Xylocopa) harbor a distinctive gut microbiome related to that of honey bees and bumble bees

Holley, Jo-Anne C; Jackson, Mary N; Pham, Anna T; Hatcher, Sarah C; Moran, Nancy A; Rudi, Knut
Applied and environmental microbiology, 2022, Vol.88 (13), p.e0020322

keywords: bombus; Bifidobacteria; Lactobacillaceae; Orbaceae; carpenter bees; insect symbiosis; microbiomes

Influence of Bee Scent and other indigenous bee attractants on bee activity and fruiting behaviour of kiwifruit

Jailyang, Landi; Sharma, N.C.; Chandel, J.S.; Rana, V.S.; Rana, Kiran; Chauhan, Priyanka
Scientia horticulturae, 2022, Vol.295, p.110869

keywords: bee activity; bee attractants; bee scent; bees; flowers; fruit set; honeybee; kiwifruit; sugarcane; yield and fruit quality

Bombus (bumble bees):
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Critical thermal limits of bumblebees (Bombus impatiens) are marked by stereotypical behaviors and are unchanged by acclimation, age or feeding status

Oyen, K. Jeannet; Dillon, Michael E.
Journal of experimental biology, 2018, Vol.221 (8), p.jeb165589-jeb165589

keywords: acclimatization; bees; carbon dioxide; climate change; critical temperature; pollination; population decline; thermal stress

Investigating the effects of glyphosate on the bumblebee proteome and microbiota

Cullen, Merissa G.; Bliss, Liam; Stanley, Dara A.; Carolan, James C. The Science of the total environment, 2023, Vol.864, p.161074-161074

keywords: bees; DNA sequencing; glyphosate; herbicides; insecticides; mass spectrometry; microbiota; physiological aspects

Increasing sampling efficiency of Bombus communities with rare and endangered species by optimizing detection probabilities: A multi-species occupancy modelling approach using roadsides as a case study

Boone, Michelle L.; Evans, Elaine; Arnold, Todd; Cariveau, Daniel P. Biological Conservation, 2023, Vol. 283.

​keywords: bumble bee, endangered, detection, sampling, floral cover

Osmia (mason bees):
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The development of the solitary bee Osmia bicornis is affected by some insecticide agrochemicals at environmentally relevant concentrations

Mokkapati, Jaya Sravanthi; Bednarska, Agnieszka J.; Laskowski, Ryszard. The Science of the total environment, 2021, Vol.775, p.145588

keywords: bees; ecological risk assessment; ecotoxicology; enzyme inhibitors; insecticides; neonicotinoids; pesticides; pollination; toxicity

Acute contact with imidacloprid in soil affects the nesting and survival success of solitary wild bee, Osmia lignaria

Fortuin, Christine Cairns; McCarty, Elizabeth; Gandhi, Kamal JK. Chemosphere (Oxford), 2021, Vol.264 (Pt 2), p.128572

keywords: bees; mortality; neonicotinoids; nesting behavior; pesticides; soil

Native solitary bee reproductive success depends on early season precipitation and host plant richness

Westreich, Lila R.; Westreich, Samuel T.; Tobin, Patrick C. Oecologia, 2023, Vol. 201, p. 965-978

​keywords: osmia, mason bee, foraging, urban, rural, host-plant, weather

Older Publications


Anthropogenic influences on bee foraging
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​Widespread occurrence of honey bee pathogens in solitary bees

Supporting bees in cities: how bees are influenced by local and landscape features

Overview of bee pollination and its economic value for crop production