Comparative analysis of 3 pollen sterilization methods for feeding bumble bees

JP Strange, AD Tripodi, C Huntzinger… - Journal of Economic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Pollen is an essential component of bee diets, and rearing bumble bees (Bombus spp.) for
commercial use necessitates feeding pollen in mass quantities. This pollen is collected from …

Pollen as Bee Medicine: Is Prevention Better than Cure?

M Vanderplanck, L Marin, D Michez, A Gekière - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Bees suffer from diverse pathogens and parasites that play crucial roles in
shaping their communities. Alas, human activities have deeply disturbed natural bee …

The effects of diet enhancement on the health of commercial bumblebee colonies

RA Hulse, A Van Oystaeyen, JD Carnell, D Beckett… - Apidologie, 2025 - Springer
Commercially reared bees provide economically important pollination services for a diversity
of crops. Improving their health is important both to maximise their pollination services and to …

Bumble bees do not avoid field-realistic but innocuous concentrations of cadmium and copper

A Gekière, L Breuer, L Dorio, D Evrard… - Ecotoxicology, 2024 - Springer
Bee populations are facing numerous stressors globally, including environmental pollution
by trace metals and metalloids. Understanding whether bees can detect and avoid these …

[HTML][HTML] Tree-dimensional resources: hedgerow and orchard pollen for bumble bees

A Gekière, A Michel, I Semay… - Comptes …, 2023 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Résumé Intensive landscape modifications have led to the loss of floral resources, partly in
early spring when bumble bee queens need suitable pollen to establish their brood …

[PDF][PDF] Pollen as Bee Medicine: Is Prevention Better than Cure? Biology 2023, 12, 497

M Vanderplanck, L Marin, D Michez, A Gekière - 2023 - zoologie.umons.ac.be
To face environmental stressors such as infection, animals may display behavioural
plasticity to improve their physiological status through ingestion of specific food. In bees, the …

Role of pollen flavonoids in the heather-bumble bee-parasite interactions

C Tourbez, I Semay, A Michel, D Michez, P Gerbaux… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
There is evidence that specialised metabolites of flowering plants occur in both vegetative
parts and floral resources (ie, pollen and nectar), exposing pollinators to their biological …

Heather pollen is not necessarily a healthy diet for bumble bees

C Tourbez, I Semay, A Michel, D Michez… - Peer Community in …, 2023 - hal.science
There is evidence that specialised metabolites of flowering plants occur in both vegetative
parts and floral resources (ie, pollen and nectar), exposing pollinators to their biological …