Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation

MA Parreño, C Alaux, JL Brunet, L Buydens… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
Wild bee populations are declining due to human activities, such as land use change, which
strongly affect the composition and diversity of available plants and food sources. The …

Global trends in bumble bee health

SA Cameron, BM Sadd - Annual review of entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Bumble bees (Bombus) are unusually important pollinators, with approximately 260 wild
species native to all biogeographic regions except sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, and New …

Pesticide Exposure and Effects on Non-Apis Bees

NE Raine, M Rundlöf - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Bees are essential pollinators of many crops and wild plants, and pesticide exposure is one
of the key environmental stressors affecting their health in anthropogenically modified …

Population decline in a ground-nesting solitary squash bee (Eucera pruinosa) following exposure to a neonicotinoid insecticide treated crop (Cucurbita pepo)

DS Willis Chan, NE Raine - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Insect pollinators are threatened by multiple environmental stressors, including pesticide
exposure. Despite being important pollinators, solitary ground-nesting bees are …

Comparison of pesticide exposure in honey bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) and bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae): implications for risk assessments

AE Gradish, J Van Der Steen… - Environmental …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Pollen nutrition fosters honeybee tolerance to pesticides

L Barascou, D Sene, A Barraud… - Royal Society …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A reduction in floral resource abundance and diversity is generally observed in agro-
ecosystems, along with widespread exposure to pesticides. Therefore, a better …

Neonicotinoid exposure disrupts bumblebee nest behavior, social networks, and thermoregulation

JD Crall, CM Switzer, RL Oppenheimer… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Neonicotinoid pesticides can negatively affect bee colonies, but the behavioral mechanisms
by which these compounds impair colony growth remain unclear. Here, we investigate …

Size-dependent responses of colony-founding bumblebee (Bombus impatiens) queens to exposure to pesticide residues in soil during hibernation

S Rondeau, NE Raine - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Bumblebees and other key pollinators are experiencing global declines, a phenomenon
driven by multiple environmental stressors, including pesticide exposure. While bumblebee …

[HTML][HTML] Flowering resources modulate the sensitivity of bumblebees to a common fungicide

D Wintermantel, MH Pereira-Peixoto, N Warth… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Bees are exposed to various stressors, including pesticides and lack of flowering resources.
Despite potential interactions between these stressors, the impacts of pesticides on bees are …

Pollinators, pests and yield—Multiple trade‐offs from insecticide use in a mass‐flowering crop

JL Knapp, A Bates, O Jonsson, B Klatt… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Multiple trade‐offs likely occur between pesticide use, pollinators and yield (via crop flowers)
in pollinator‐dependent, mass‐flowering crops (MFCs), causing potential conflict between …