To date, regulatory pesticide risk assessments have relied on the honey bee (Apis mellifera
L.)(Hymenoptera: Apidae) as a surrogate test species for estimating the risk of pesticide …

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 …

Social bees collect carbohydrate-rich food to support their colonies, and yet, certain
carbohydrates present in their diet or produced through the breakdown of pollen are toxic to …

Bumblebees are familiar and charismatic insects, occurring throughout much of the world.
They are increasingly being used as a model organism for studying a wide range of …

Declines in many bumble bee species have been documented in Europe raising several
ecological and economic concerns. The nature and extent of bumble bee decline in North …

Habitat degradation and climate change are globally acting as pivotal drivers of wildlife
collapse, with mounting evidence that this erosion of biodiversity will accelerate in the …

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 …

The animal gut is a habitat for diverse communities of microorganisms (microbiota).
Honeybees and bumblebees have recently been shown to harbour a distinct and species …

Bumble bees (Bombus) are a cold-adapted, largely alpine group that can elucidate patterns
of Holarctic historical biogeography, particularly in comparison to the alpine plants with …

Conservation biology can profit greatly from incorporating a phylogenetic perspective into
analyses of patterns and drivers of species extinction risk. We applied such an approach to …