In Europe, honey bees and bumble bees are among the most important pollinators, and
there is a growing interest in understanding the effects of floral resource availability on their …

This paper presents a bee-based environment monitoring system that uses pollen color
analysis to estimate floral diversity. The study focuses on non-invasively assessing pollinator …

We use a national citizen science monitoring scheme to quantify how agricultural
intensification affects honeybee diet breadth (number of plant species). To do this we used …

Colour is commonly used as an initial proxy for the determination of botanical origin for
pollen pellets collected by honeybees. However, individuals with Colour Vision Deficiency …

Recent molecular phylogenetic studies of Dipsacales place Symphoricarpos in a clade
containing Leycesteria, Triosteum, and Lonicera. The aim of this research was to analyze …

Pollen is known to be the only source of proteins and fats for honey bees. Therefore, it is an
important component of nutrition, essential for brood care and a good indicator for the …

Various methods have been developed to assign pollen to its botanical origin. They range
from technically complex approaches to the less precise but sophisticated chromatic …

Bees are major pollinators of wild and cultivated plants. Pesticides have been pointed out as
a major driver of wild bee declines and of notorious honey bee colony losses, with high …

Many bees visit just one flower species during a foraging trip, ie they show flower constancy.
Flower constancy is important for plant reproduction but it could lead to an unbalanced diet …

Çanakkale, Turkey, which straddles the continents of Europe and Asia, is a settlement centre
with natural beauty divided by the Dardanelles Strait. This study determined the diversity …