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Significant, but not biologically relevant: Nosema ceranae infections and winter losses of honey bee colonies
The Western honey bee Apis mellifera , which provides about 90% of commercial pollination, is under threat from diverse abiotic and biotic factors....
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Next-generation colony weight monitoring: a review and prospectus
Healthy honey bee colonies follow predictable patterns of weight change through the season, gaining weight when resources are abundant and losing...
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Association of excessive precipitation and agricultural land use with honey bee colony performance
ContextFrom landscape variables to weather, multiple environmental factors affect honey bees and other pollinators. Detailed honey bee colony...
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Long-term continuous mismatch between grazing cues and real grazing losses causes attenuation of induced morphological defense in Scenedesmus
For the freshwater phytoplankton Scenedesmus , morphological defense induced by infochemicals released from grazers (such as Daphnia ) is considered to...
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The First Description of a Synanthropic Colony of Common Kittiwake Risa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) in the City of Murmansk
AbstractThe only large synanthropic colony of the common kittiwake Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758), located within the city of Murmansk, has been...
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The nest position and bank height of a bee-eater colony affect the likelihood of nest loss due to predation
We examined the nest loss due to predation of European Bee-eaters ( Merops apiaster ) during the period their colony was frequented by Caspian...
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Reproductive Biology of A Three-heron Mixed Colony in a Neotropical Mangrove Forest
Herons typically reproduce colonially, either monospecific or mixed, over waterbodies, high in trees or shrubs, mangroves, and islands. Information...
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Convergent and complementary selection shaped gains and losses of eusociality in sweat bees
Sweat bees have repeatedly gained and lost eusociality, a transition from individual to group reproduction. Here we generate chromosome-length genome...
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Population genomics of the ‘rediscovered’ threatened New Zealand storm petrel (Fregetta maoriana) support a single breeding colony
The New Zealand storm petrel (NZSP; Fregetta maoriana ), thought to be extinct for over 150 years, was rediscovered in 2003. In 2013, a single NZSP...
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Prostaglandin A3 regulates the colony development of Odontotermes formosanus by reducing worker proportion
Subterranean termites cause significant economic losses worldwide due to their destruction of agricultural and forest plants. In the past, soil...
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Native avian predators for the world’s Black-browed Albatross (Thalassarche melanophrys) breeding colony in inner waters of Tierra del Fuego, Chile
The breeding season is the most vulnerable period in the early stages of the life cycle of seabirds, due to the exposure of their eggs and chicks to...
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The synergy between serious parasitic pathogens and bacterial infestation in the cultured Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus): a severe threat to fish immunity, causing mass mortality and significant economic losses
Stress-induced epidemic parasites and bacterial diseases are becoming a typical occurrence in fish aquaculture across the globe, those consider...
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Temporal Changes in Gut Microbiota Composition and Pollen Diet Associated with Colony Weakness of a Stingless Bee
Compared to honeybees and bumblebees, the effect of diet on the gut microbiome of Neotropical corbiculate bees such as Melipona spp. is largely...
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Nutrient fluxes from an Arctic seabird colony to the adjacent coastal marine ecosystem
Seabirds are important vectors for nutrient transfer across ecosystem boundaries. In this seasonal study, we evaluate the impact of an Arctic colony...
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A simulation study of a honeybee breeding scheme accounting for polyandry, direct and maternal effects on colony performance
BackgroundEfficient breeding programs are difficult to implement in honeybees due to their biological specificities (polyandry and haplo-diploidy)...
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Bee colony losses in Brazil: a 5-year online survey
In 2014, an online survey was launched to assess impacts of bee losses in Brazil (honeybees, stingless bees, and solitary bees). Events from January...
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Efficacy and trade-offs of an innovative hyperthermia device to control Varroa destructor in honeybee colonies
For decades, the honeybee, Apis mellifera , has suffered from severe colony losses due to the ectoparasitic mite Varroa destructor . Various strategies...
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Temnothorax longispinosus acorn ant colonies respond to parasitic raids by emigrating
Social insects face many threats from predators and parasites, and so have evolved a diversity of behavioral defense strategies to evade and combat...
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Prospects of probiotics in beekee**: a review for sustainable approach to boost honeybee health
Honeybees are vital for global crop pollination, making indispensable contributions to agricultural productivity. However, these vital insects are...
