Feedbacks between nutrition and disease in honey bee health

AG Dolezal, AL Toth - Current opinion in insect science, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Nutritional stress and disease are two of the main concerns in honey bee
health.•Poor nutrition can lead to increased susceptibility to viral and fungal diseases.•Some …

Integrated pest and pollinator management–expanding the concept

O Lundin, M Rundlöf, M Jonsson… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of integrated pest and pollinator management (IPPM) is to co‐manage for pest
control and pollination goals. Departing from the well‐established concept of integrated pest …

Land-use change reduces habitat suitability for supporting managed honey bee colonies in the Northern Great Plains

CRV Otto, CL Roth, BL Carlson… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Human reliance on insect pollination services continues to increase even as pollinator
populations exhibit global declines. Increased commodity crop prices and federal subsidies …

[HTML][HTML] County-level analysis reveals a rapidly shifting landscape of insecticide hazard to honey bees (Apis mellifera) on US farmland

MR Douglas, DB Sponsler, EV Lonsdorf… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Each year, millions of kilograms of insecticides are applied to crops in the US. While
insecticide use supports food, fuel, and fiber production, it can also threaten non-target …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of biotic and abiotic stressors on managed and feral bees

J Belsky, NK Joshi - Insects, 2019 - mdpi.com
Large-scale declines in bee abundance and species richness over the last decade have
sounded an alarm, given the crucial pollination services that bees provide. Population dips …

[HTML][HTML] Honey bee foraging ecology: Season but not landscape diversity shapes the amount and diversity of collected pollen

N Danner, A Keller, S Härtel, I Steffan-Dewenter - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Toward the protection of bees and pollination under global change: present and future perspectives in a challenging applied science

A Decourtye, C Alaux, Y Le Conte, M Henry - Current opinion in insect …, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Two-fold increase in the proportion of global change publications in the last 30
years.•Restore and protect bee habitats (network of 'green infrastructure'for foraging and …

Native habitat mitigates feast–famine conditions faced by honey bees in an agricultural landscape

AG Dolezal, AL St. Clair, G Zhang… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Intensive agriculture can contribute to pollinator decline, exemplified by alarmingly high
annual losses of honey bee colonies in regions dominated by annual crops (eg, midwestern …

Interacting stressors matter: diet quality and virus infection in honeybee health

AG Dolezal, J Carrillo-Tripp… - Royal Society …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Honeybee population declines have been linked to multiple stressors, including reduced
diet diversity and increased exposure to understudied viral pathogens. Despite interest in …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal variation of pollen collected by honey bees (Apis mellifera) in developed areas across four regions in the United States

P Lau, V Bryant, JD Ellis, ZY Huang, J Sullivan… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
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 …