Floral nectar is prone to colonization by nectar-adapted yeasts and bacteria via air-, rain-,
and animal-mediated dispersal. Upon colonization, microbes can modify nectar chemical …

Evidence for global bee population declines has catalyzed a rapidly evolving area of
research that aims to identify the causal factors and to effectively assess the status of …

With their long lives and extreme reproductive output, social insect queens have escaped
the classic trade-off between fecundity and lifespan, but evidence for a trade-off between …

Gut microbiomes are increasingly recognized for mediating diverse biological aspects of
their hosts, including complex behavioral phenotypes. Although many studies have reported …

Pollinator diversity and abundance in North America have been at a steep decline over the
last two decades due to the combinatorial effects of several environmental and …

In insects, odorant receptors facilitate olfactory communication and require the functionality
of the highly conserved co-receptor gene orco. Genome editing studies in a few species of …

Understanding the regulatory architecture of phenotypic variation is a fundamental goal in
biology, but connections between gene regulatory network (GRN) activity and individual …

It has been known for many years that in temperate climates the European honey bee, Apis
mellifera, exists in the form of two distinct populations within the year, short-living summer …

The honeybee queen is the engine of the colony, laying thousands of eggs that develop into
larvae, nurse bees, and foragers. In turn, pollen and nectar from the environment, matured …

Trisiloxane surfactants are often applied in formulated adjuvant products to blooming crops,
including almonds, exposing the managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) used for pollination …