Monitoring the environment for pollution, pesticides, and pathogens is crucial for protecting
human, agriculture, and overall ecosystem health. Diverse strategies ranging from physical …

Wild and managed pollinators provide a wide range of benefits to society in terms of
contributions to food security, farmer and beekeeper livelihoods, social and cultural values …

Global concern over widely documented declines in pollinators,–has led to the identification
of anthropogenic stressors that, individually, are detrimental to bee populations …

Cultivation of pollinator-dependent crops has expanded globally, increasing our reliance on
insect pollination. This essential ecosystem service is provided by a wide range of managed …

The gut microbiota can have profound effects on hosts, but the study of these relationships in
humans is challenging. The specialized gut microbial community of honey bees is similar to …

Managed bees are critical for crop pollination worldwide. As the demand for pollinator-
dependent crops increases, so does the use of managed bees. Concern has arisen that …

The gut microbiota of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) offers several advantages as an
experimental system for addressing how gut communities affect their hosts and for exploring …

The negative impacts of pesticides, in particular insecticides, on bees and other pollinators
have never been disputed. Insecticides can directly kill these vital insects, whereas …

Deformed wing virus (DWV) and its vector, the mite Varroa destructor, are a major threat to
the world's honeybees. Although the impact of Varroa on colony-level DWV epidemiology is …

In the past centuries, viruses have benefited from globalization to spread across the globe,
infecting new host species and populations. A growing number of viruses have been …