Insects: a potential source of protein and other nutrients for feed and food

KJ Hawkey, C Lopez-Viso, JM Brameld… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Sustainable production of healthy food for a growing global population, in the face of the
uncertainties of climate change, represents a major challenge for the coming decade …

Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses

K Maebe, AF Hart, L Marshall… - Global change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bumblebees are ubiquitous, cold‐adapted eusocial bees found worldwide from subarctic to
tropical regions of the world. They are key pollinators in most temperate and boreal …

Single and combined exposure to 'bee safe' pesticides alter behaviour and offspring production in a ground-nesting solitary bee (Xenoglossa pruinosa)

S Rondeau, NE Raine - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Mounting evidence supporting the negative impacts of exposure to neonicotinoids on bees
has prompted the registration of novel 'bee-friendly'insecticides for agricultural use …

[PDF][PDF] GroupStruct: An R package for allometric size correction

KO Chan, LL Grismer - Zootaxa, 2022 - researchgate.net
The efficacy of an allometric growth model to correct for ontogenetic body size variation has
been known for decades, yet this method remains relatively obscure and rarely applied. We …

Urbanization is associated with shifts in bumblebee body size, with cascading effects on pollination

P Theodorou, LM Baltz, RJ Paxton… - Evolutionary …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization is a global phenomenon with major effects on species, the structure of
community functional traits and ecological interactions. Body size is a key species trait linked …

How will climatic warming affect insect pollinators?

MG Johnson, JR Glass, ME Dillon… - Advances in insect …, 2023 - Elsevier
Predicting the effects of climate warming on insect pollinators is challenging. Insects are
small, mobile, and can be excellent thermoregulators. We describe behavioral and …

Bees exposed to climate change are more sensitive to pesticides

S Albacete, G Sancho, C Azpiazu… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bee populations are exposed to multiple stressors, including land‐use change, biological
invasions, climate change, and pesticide exposure, that may interact synergistically. We …

Body mass decline in a M editerranean community of solitary bees supports the size shrinking effect of climatic warming

CM Herrera, A Núñez, J Valverde, C Alonso - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The long‐known, widely documented inverse relationship between body size and
environmental temperature (“temperature‐size rule”) has recently led to predictions of body …

[HTML][HTML] Annual flowers strips benefit bumble bee colony growth and reproduction

BK Klatt, L Nilsson, HG Smith - Biological Conservation, 2020 - Elsevier
Bumble bees are important crop pollinators but are negatively impacted by agricultural
intensification and concomitant loss of floral resources. Flower strips can increase the …

Using individual‐based trait frequency distributions to forecast plant‐pollinator network responses to environmental change

A Cantwell‐Jones, JM Tylianakis, K Larson… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how and why organisms interact is fundamental to understanding ecosystem
responses to future environmental change. To assess the impact on plant‐pollinator …