Many insect species provide essential pollination services. However, the amount of pollen
deposited onto a stigma when visiting a flower ('single visit pollen deposition', SVD) can vary …

Bumblebees are ubiquitous, cold‐adapted eusocial bees found worldwide from subarctic to
tropical regions of the world. They are key pollinators in most temperate and boreal …

A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their
relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The …

Insect pollination is a vital ecosystem service that maintains biodiversity and sustains
agricultural crop yields. Social bees are essential insect pollinators, so it is concerning that …

Bumblebees are familiar and charismatic insects, occurring throughout much of the world.
They are increasingly being used as a model organism for studying a wide range of …

Bumblebees and other pollinators provide a vital ecosystem service for the agricultural
sector. Recent studies however have suggested that exposure to systemic neonicotinoid …

Pathogen spread or 'spillover'can occur when heavily infected, domestic hosts interact with
closely-related wildlife populations. Commercially-produced bumble bees used in …

To date, regulatory pesticide risk assessments have relied on the honey bee (Apis mellifera
L.)(Hymenoptera: Apidae) as a surrogate test species for estimating the risk of pesticide …

The effects of environmental temperature on components of insect flight determine life‐
history traits, fitness, adaptability and, ultimately, organism ecosystem functional roles …

Circadian (∼ 24 h) clock regulated biological rhythms have been identified in a wide range
of organisms from prokaryotic unicellular cyanobacteria to higher mammals. These rhythms …