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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...

Exposure of honey bees to mixtures of microbial biopesticides and their effects on bee survival under laboratory conditions

Articles 16. August 2024

Biopesticides, having as active ingredients viruses, bacteria, or fungi, are developed to substitute or reduce the use of chemical plant protection products in different...

Honey bee colonies can buffer short-term stressor effects of pollen restriction and fungicide exposure on colony development and the microbiome

Articles 16. August 2024

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) have to withstand various environmental stressors alone or in combination in agriculture settings. Plant protection products are applied to achieve...

Insects’ essential role in understanding and broadening animal medication

Articles 16. August 2024

Like humans, animals use plants and other materials as medication against parasites. Recent decades have shown that the study of insects can greatly advance...

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)

Exposure of honey bees to mixtures of microbial biopesticides and their effects on bee survival under laboratory conditions

Honey bee colonies can buffer short-term stressor effects of pollen restriction and fungicide exposure on colony development and the microbiome

Insects’ essential role in understanding and broadening animal medication

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