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Polyfloral nutritional resources promote bumble bee colony development after exposure to a pesticide mixture

Articles 21. May 2025

Bumble bees are important pollinators of crops in the field and greenhouses. They are naturally exposed to a combination of interacting stressors, e.g., loss...

New fungal core microbiome members of the ground nesting bee Andrena vaga: The key to oligolecty?

Articles 21. May 2025

To fully understand a species, it is essential to gain knowledge about their associated (micro-)organisms. Currently, most research focuses on managed social bees and...

A guide to sunflowers: floral resource nutrition for bee health and key pollination syndromes

Articles 21. May 2025

Sunflower, Helianthus annuus L., is a prominent global oilseed crop with rising cultivation and appeal as a bee-friendly plant by providing abundant floral resources for pollinators....

Urban wild bees benefit from flower‑rich anthropogenic land use depending on bee trait and scale

Articles 22. January 2025

Context: Wild bees are important pollinators for wild and cultivated plants. Besides other causes, their decline has been linked to land-use change such as...

Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation

Articles 20. January 2025

Bees are the most important group of insect pollinators, but their populations are declining. To gain a better understanding of wild bee responses to...

Testing microbial pest control products in bees, a comparative study on different bee species and their interaction with two representative microorganisms

Articles 20. January 2025

Background: The evaluation of the impact of pesticides on non-target species, like bees, is a crucial factor in registration procedures. Therefore, standardized test procedures...

Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health

Articles 20. January 2025

Residues of plant protection products (PPPs) are frequently detected in bee matrices1–6 due to foraging bees collecting contaminated nectar and pollen, which they bring...

Standard methods for European foulbrood research 2.0

Articles 20. January 2025

European foulbrood (EFB) is a severe bacterial honey bee brood disease caused by the Grampositive bacterium Melissocccus plutonius. The disease is widely distributed worldwide,...

Anatomical, phenological and genetic aspects of the host–parasite relationship between Andrena vaga (Hymenoptera) and Stylops ater (Strepsiptera)

Articles 20. January 2025

Stylops ater is an endoparasite of the mining bee Andrena vaga with extreme sexual dimorphism and hypermetamorphosis. Its population structure, parasitization mode, genetic diversity...

Polyfloral nutritional resources promote bumble bee colony development after exposure to a pesticide mixture

New fungal core microbiome members of the ground nesting bee Andrena vaga: The key to oligolecty?

A guide to sunflowers: floral resource nutrition for bee health and key pollination syndromes

Urban wild bees benefit from flower‑rich anthropogenic land use depending on bee trait and scale

Improving wild bee monitoring, sampling methods, and conservation

Testing microbial pest control products in bees, a comparative study on different bee species and their interaction with two representative microorganisms

Nurse honey bees filter fungicide residues to maintain larval health

Standard methods for European foulbrood research 2.0

Anatomical, phenological and genetic aspects of the host–parasite relationship between Andrena vaga (Hymenoptera) and Stylops ater (Strepsiptera)

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