Identifying wild bee visitors of major crops in North America with notes on potential threats from agricultural practices

S Rondeau, DS Willis Chan, A Pindar - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Considering the critical importance of insect pollination to food security and documented
declines in wild bee populations, it is imperative to develop effective conservation and …

Thermal tolerance and sociality explain the interactive role of bees in a pollination network

B Ratoni, C Pinilla Cruz, R Guevara… - Oikos, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have explored the organization of pollination networks and the factors
influencing these interactions at various spatial and temporal scales. Within these networks …

Sociality in the North African small carpenter bee, Ceratina albosticta

M Mikát, SM Rehan - Insectes Sociaux, 2022 - Springer
Small carpenter bees (genus Ceratina) are excellent taxa for studying early stages of social
evolution, as they have high within and between species variability in social and parental …

Large fitness benefits of social nesting in a small carpenter bee

M Mikát, SM Rehan - Behavioral Ecology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Facultatively social insects are an optimal model group for the study of the emergence of
cooperation between individuals. Factors influencing the fitness benefits of social nesting …

Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Bees in Traditional Agroecosystems and Tropical Forest Patches on the Yucatan Peninsula

LP Serralta-Batun, JJ Jiménez-Osornio… - Tropical …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and Research Objectives: Habitat matrices of intensive agricultural use are
generally inhospitable to native bees in fragmented forests. However, in some tropical …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic evidence for parthenogenesis in the small carpenter bee Ceratina dallatoreana (Apidae, Ceratinini) in its native distribution range

M Mikát, J Straka - Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2023 - jhr.pensoft.net
Arrhenotoky is the typical mode of reproduction in Hymenoptera. Diploid females develop
from fertilized eggs, whereas haploid males originate from unfertilized eggs. However, some …

Genetic evidence for parthenogenesis in small carpenter bee, Ceratina dallatoreana in its native distribution area

M Mikát, J Straka - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Arrhenotoky is typical mode of reproduction for Hymenoptera–females originate from
fertilized eggs, males from unfertilized eggs. However, some lineages of Hymenoptera have …

Studio degli apoidei selvatici in bee-hotel nell'area Vestina della regione Abruzzo

A DI MARCO - thesis.unipd.it
Negli ultimi anni l'attenzione rivolta verso gli insetti impollinatori è cresciuta notevolmente.
Tra questi vi sono gli apoidei che occupano un ruolo centrale nel mantenimento degli …