Community ecology of the 'other'parasitoids

JO Stireman III - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Many diverse lineages of parasitoids exist in addition to parasitic wasps.•The
community ecology of these 'NH-parasitoids' is poorly known.•NH-parasitoid assemblages …

Sunflower pollen reduces a gut pathogen in the model bee species, Bombus impatiens, but has weaker effects in three wild congeners

AE Fowler, JJ Giacomini… - … of the Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Commercial bumblebees have become popular models to understand stressors and
solutions for pollinator health, but few studies test whether results translate to other …

Novel multiplex PCR reveals multiple trypanosomatid species infecting North American bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)

AD Tripodi, AL Szalanski, JP Strange - Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2018 - Elsevier
Crithidia bombi and Crithidia expoeki (Trypanosomatidae) are common parasites of bumble
bees (Bombus spp.). Crithidia bombi was described in the 1980s, and C. expoeki was …

[图书][B] Conopidae (Diptera)

JH Stuke - 2017 - books.google.com
The World Catalogue of the Conopidae offers the first complete list of this Diptera family
worldwide since 1919. 808 recent and fossil species, together with their synonyms …

Pollen Diet Diversity does not Affect Gut Bacterial Communities or Melanization in a Social and Solitary Bee Species

AE Fowler, QS McFrederick, LS Adler - Microbial Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Pollinators face many stressors, including reduced floral diversity. A low-diversity diet can
impair organisms' ability to cope with additional stressors, such as pathogens, by altering the …

The influence of conopid flies on bumble bee colony productivity under different food resource conditions

RL Malfi, JA Walter, TH Roulston… - Ecological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Floral resources and natural enemies are considered important drivers of wild bee
population dynamics, yet there is little information on how these factors, either independently …

Host-parasitoid interactions between the solitary bee Centris analis (Apidae: Centridini) and conopid flies (Diptera: Conopidae)

D Moure-Oliveira, CM Hirotsu, JC Serrano… - The Science of …, 2019 - Springer
Natural enemies are one of the main mortality factors in bees and wasps attacking either
immature stages or adults of their hosts. Dipterans of the genus Physocephala (Diptera …