The availability of pollen in agricultural landscapes is essential for the successful growth and
reproduction of honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera L.). The quantity and diversity of collected …

For honey bees (Apis mellifera), colony maintenance and growth are highly dependent on
worker foragers obtaining sufficient resources from flowering plants year round. Despite the …

Honey bee health is affected by multiple stressors, such as the exposure to plant protection
products (PPPs), dietary limitation, monofloral diets and pressure of diseases and …

Honey bee workers (Apis mellifera) consume a variety of pollens to meet the majority of their
requirements for protein and lipids. Recent work indicates that honey bees prefer diets that …

Bee Bread samples from Romania and India were analysed by microscopy and High
Performance Liquid Chromatography with Diode Array Detection (HPLC/DAD) and …

In modern managed agro-ecosystems, the supply of adequate food from blooming crops is
limited to brief periods. During periods of pollen deficiencies, bees are forced to forage on …

Austrian beekeepers participated in the “CSI Pollen” study as citizen scientists and collected
pollen from honey bee colonies in hive mounted traps every three weeks from April to …

Pollinator populations are declining (Biesmeijer et al., 2006; Brodschneider et al., 2018;
Cameron et al., 2011; Goulson, Lye, & Darvill, 2008; Kulhanek et al., 2017; National …

Recent declines in the abundance and diversity of wild bee species have made it important
to understand how introduced species such as honey bees contribute to pollinating native …

The arrival to the U nited S tates of the A fricanized honey bee, a hybrid between E uropean
subspecies and the A frican subspecies A pis mellifera scutellata, is a remarkable model for …