Bees are important pollinators worldwide, promoting sustainability in agriculture and natural
ecosystems. Moreover, honey bees produce a variety of honey bee products (beehive …

Teeming within pollen provisions are diverse communities of symbiotic microbes, which
provide a variety of benefits to bees. Microbes themselves may represent a major dietary …

Sublethal exposure to fungicides can affect honey bees (Apis mellifera L.) in ways that
resemble malnutrition. These include reduced brood rearing, queen loss, and increased …

As pollen and nectar foragers, bees have long been considered strictly herbivorous. Their
pollen provisions, however, are host to abundant microbial communities, which feed on the …

1. For solitary bees that specialise on select pollen types (oligoleges), larval development
depends on the availability of forage pollen from appropriate host plants and the naturally …

Aims To establish the molecular tools for honeybee paratransgenesis. Methods and Results
Commensal bacteria were isolated from two honeybees. Based on 16S ribosomal RNA …

The present paper deals with the searching for the primary and secondary effects on the
vitality of bee colonies in selected regions of Slovakia. The effects like natural environment …

In recent years there has been a dramatic worldwide increase in the loss of honey bee (Apis
mellifera) colonies (1). This decline has received much attention due to the important …