Pathogens spillover from honey bees to other arthropods

A Nanetti, L Bortolotti, G Cilia - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Honey bees, and pollinators in general, play a major role in the health of ecosystems. There
is a consensus about the steady decrease in pollinator populations, which raises global …

Review on mathematical modeling of honeybee population dynamics

J Chen, G DeGrandi-Hoffman, V Ratti… - Mathematical Biosciences …, 2021 - par.nsf.gov
Honeybees have an irreplaceable position in agricultural production and the stabilization of
natural ecosystems. Unfortunately, honeybee populations have been declining globally …

Honey bees increase social distancing when facing the ectoparasite Varroa destructor

M Pusceddu, A Cini, S Alberti, E Salaris… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Social distancing in response to infectious diseases is a strategy exhibited by human and
nonhuman animals to counteract the spread of pathogens and/or parasites. Honey bee …

[HTML][HTML] Honeybees and the One Health Approach

JC Prata, P Martins da Costa - Environments, 2024 - mdpi.com
The One Health approach recognizes the interconnectedness between human, animal, and
environmental health. Honeybees (Apis mellifera) embody this framework due to their …

Glucosinolate Bioactivation by Apis mellifera Workers and Its Impact on Nosema ceranae Infection at the Colony Level

L Ugolini, G Cilia, E Pagnotta, L Malaguti, V Capano… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
The microsporidian fungus Nosema ceranae represents one of the primary bee infection
threats worldwide and the antibiotic fumagillin is the only registered product for nosemosis …

Inverse problem numerical analysis of forager bee losses in spatial environment without contamination

AZ Atanasov, MN Koleva, LG Vulkov - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
We consider an inverse problem of recovering the mortality rate in the honey bee difference
equation model, that tracks a forage honeybee leaving and entering the hive each day. We …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding social resilience in honeybee colonies

ZN Ulgezen, C van Dooremalen… - Current Research in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Honeybee colonies experience high losses, induced by several stressors that can result in
the collapse of colonies. Experiments show what effects stressors, such as parasites …

Field relevant doses of the fipronil affects gene expression in honey bees Apis mellifera

A Astolfi, SM Kadri, IC de Castro Lippi, DD Mendes… - Apidologie, 2022 - Springer
We analyzed the changes in the gene expression of forage honey bees (Apis mellifera)
exposed to fipronil field-relevant dose (2.5 ppb/bee) by 1 or 4 h. A reduction in the …

A New Isolated Fungus and Its Pathogenicity for Apis mellifera Brood in China

T Aynalem, L Meng, A Getachew, J Wu, H Yu, J Tan… - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this article, we report the pathogenicity of a new strain of fungus, Rhizopus oryzae to
honeybee larvae, isolated from the chalkbrood-diseased mummies of honeybee larvae and …

Reconstruction coefficient analysis of honeybee collapse due to pesticide contamination

MN Koleva, LG Vulkov - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we consider the inverse problems of identifying space-dependent coefficients
of the mortality rate of the bees and the rate of contamination of the forager bees by …