Social bee gut microbiotas play key roles in host health and performance. Worryingly, a
growing body of literature shows that pesticide exposure can disturb these microbiotas. Most …

Melanins (eumelanin and pheomelanin) are synthesized in insects for several purposes
including cuticle sclerotization and color patterning, clot formation, organogenesis, and …

Adult honeybees harbor a specialized gut microbiota of relatively low complexity. While
seasonal differences in community composition have been reported, previous studies have …

Commensal microbes in animal guts often help to exclude bacterial pathogens. In honey
bees, perturbing or depleting the gut microbiota increases host mortality rates upon …

We previously characterized and quantified the influence of land use on survival and
productivity of colonies positioned in six apiaries and found that colonies in apiaries …

Temperate honey bees (Apis mellifera) are challenged by low temperatures and abrupt
dietary shifts associated with behavioral changes during winter. Case studies have revealed …

Microsporidium Nosema ceranae is well known for exerting a negative impact on honey bee
health, including down-regulation of immunoregulatory genes. Protein nutrition has been …

Bees are important plant pollinators in both natural and agricultural ecosystems. Managed
and wild bees have experienced high average annual colony losses, population declines …

Apis mellifera is an important bee pollinating native and crop plants but its recent population
decline has been linked to the use of pesticides, including fungicides that have been …

Honeybees are of great importance because of their role in pollination as well as for hive
products. The population of managed colonies fluctuates over time, and recent monitoring …