Bees pollinate most of the world's wild plant species and provide economically valuable
pollination services to crops; yet knowledge of bee conservation biology lags far behind …

The dominant and ancestral mode of sex determination in the Hymenoptera is
arrhenotokous parthenogenesis, in which diploid females develop from fertilized eggs and …

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 …

The role of genetic factors in extinction is firmly established for diploid organisms, but
haplodiploids have been considered immune to genetic load impacts because deleterious …

The haplodiploid sex determining mechanism in Hymenoptera (males are haploid, females
are diploid) has played an important role in the evolution of this insect order. In …

The emerging threat of pollinator decline has motivated research on bee conservation
biology in order to both understand the causes of declines and to develop appropriate …

Declines in bee populations across the world threaten food security and ecosystem function.
It is currently not possible to routinely predict which specific stressors lead to declines in …

Intraspecific genetic variation in arthropods is often studied in the context of evolution and
ecology. Such knowledge, however, can also be very usefully applied to biological pest …

Although habitat fragmentation and agricultural intensification are known as threads to
pollinator diversity, little is known about consequences for population size and genetic …

Bumble bees are a longstanding model system for studies on behaviour, ecology and
evolution, due to their well‐studied social lifestyle, invaluable role as wild and managed …