Global trends in bumble bee health

SA Cameron, BM Sadd - Annual review of entomology, 2020‏ - annualreviews.org
Bumble bees (Bombus) are unusually important pollinators, with approximately 260 wild
species native to all biogeographic regions except sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, and New …

Ecology and evolution of cuckoo bumble bees

P Lhomme, HM Hines - Annals of the entomological Society of …, 2019‏ - academic.oup.com
Most social insect lineages contain socially parasitic cheater species that, rather than
produce their own workers, infiltrate the nests of closely related social species and force the …

The state of bee monitoring in the United States: A call to refocus away from bowl traps and towards more effective methods

ZM Portman, B Bruninga-Socolar… - Annals of the …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Effective monitoring is necessary to provide robust detection of bee declines. In the United
States and worldwide, bowl traps have been increasingly used to monitor native bees and …

Genus-wide characterization of bumblebee genomes provides insights into their evolution and variation in ecological and behavioral traits

C Sun, J Huang, Y Wang, X Zhao, L Su… - Molecular biology …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Bumblebees are a diverse group of globally important pollinators in natural ecosystems and
for agricultural food production. With both eusocial and solitary life-cycle phases, and some …

Entomological collections in the age of big data

AEZ Short, T Dikow, CS Moreau - Annual Review of Entomology, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
With a million described species and more than half a billion preserved specimens, the large
scale of insect collections is unequaled by those of any other group. Advances in genomics …

Local habitat type influences bumble bee pathogen loads and bee species distributions

EM Gratton, DJ McNeil Jr, CM Grozinger… - Environmental …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract Bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Bombus Latreille) perform important
ecological services in both managed and natural ecosystems. Anthropogenically induced …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of different inter-row soil management and intra-row living mulch on spontaneous flora, beneficial insects, and growth of young olive trees in southern …

G Las Casas, C Ciaccia, V Iovino, F Ferlito, B Torrisi… - Plants, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Conservation agriculture (ie, minimized soil disturbance and permanent soil covering) and
living mulches represent two agroecological practices that can improve soil fertility …

Whole genome demographic models indicate divergent effective population size histories shape contemporary genetic diversity gradients in a montane bumble bee

JD Lozier, JP Strange, SD Heraghty - Ecology and Evolution, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding historical range shifts and population size variation provides an important
context for interpreting contemporary genetic diversity. Methods to predict changes in …

Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the rusty patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Apidae), an endangered North American pollinator

JBU Koch, SB Sim, B Scheffler… - G3: Genes, Genomes …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
The rusty patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis, is an important pollinator in North America
and a federally listed endangered species. Due to habitat loss and large declines in …

Current and future distributions of a native Andean bumble bee

AC Nascimento, J Montalva, JS Ascher… - Journal of Insect …, 2022‏ - Springer
Climate change (CC) is expected to negatively impact global biodiversity and ecosystems,
resulting in profound ecological impacts and placing complex networks of biological …