Emerging risk of cross-species transmission of honey bee viruses in the presence of invasive vespid species

MS Rodríguez-Flores, M Mazzei, A Felicioli… - Insects, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Currently, bee viruses are one of the threats to honey bee populations.
The increase in invasive Vespid species causes a negative impact on honey bee colonies …

Viral load, not food availability or temperature, predicts colony longevity in an invasive eusocial wasp with plastic life history

KJ Loope, EE Wilson Rankin - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Social insect colonies exhibit a variety of life history strategies, from the annual,
semelparous colonies of temperate bees and wasps to the long-lived colonies of many ants …

A diverse viral community from predatory wasps in their native and invaded range, with a new virus infectious to honey bees

EJ Remnant, JW Baty, M Bulgarella, J Dobelmann… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Wasps of the genus Vespula are social insects that have become major pests and predators
in their introduced range. Viruses present in these wasps have been studied in the context of …

A molecular approach to studying Hymenoptera diets using polistine wasps

MC Lefort, JR Beggs, TR Glare, EJ Doyle, TE Saunders… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The study of animal diets has benefited from the rise of high-throughput DNA sequencing
applied to stomach content or faecal samples. The latter can be fresh samples used to …

Detection of honey bee viruses in Vespula germanica: Black queen cell virus and Kashmir bee virus

GB Eroglu - Biologia, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The German wasp, Vespula germanica (Hymenoptera: Vespidae), is social insect
that honey contributes to pollination and biological control because they feed on agricultural …

Nest visitors of Vespula wasps and their potential use for biological control in an invaded range

JE Stratford, FMW Stratford, RL Brown, CA Oi - Journal of Pest Science, 2024 - Springer
The common and the German wasp, Vespula vulgaris and V. germanica, have proved to be
prolific invasive species capable of degrading local ecosystems and costing invaded …

Vulnerability of island insect pollinator communities to pathogens

LE Brettell, SJ Martin, M Riegler, JM Cook - Journal of Invertebrate …, 2021 - Elsevier
Island ecosystems, which often contain undescribed insects and small populations of single
island endemics, are at risk from diverse threats. The spread of pathogens is a major factor …

[PDF][PDF] A molecular approach to study Hymenoptera diets using wasp nests. NeoBiota, 63, 57–79

MC Lefort, JR Beggs, TR Glare, TE Saunders, EJ Doyle… - 2020 - researchgate.net
The study of animal diets has benefited from the rise of high-throughput DNA sequencing
applied to stomach content or faecal samples. The latter can be fresh samples used to …

A Record of Microsporidian Pathogen of the European wasp, Vespula vulgaris Linnaeus, 1758 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) in Turkey

Ç Bekircan, O Tosun, H Yıldırım - Journal of Apitherapy and Nature, 2023 - dergipark.org.tr
Microsporidia are common enigmatic pathogens of hymenopterans. Although these species
are more concerned with Apidae (especially honeybees), they are also known to infect …

Stylopized hornets (Vespa, Vespidae) as preferred hosts of the parasitic mite Charletonia southcotti (Erythraeidae, Acari)

H Kosaka, K Sayama, K Okabe, S Makino - Insectes Sociaux, 2021 - Springer
Parasitic mites have thus far been recorded only rarely from vespine wasps. We found
larvae of the erythraeid mite Charletonia southcotti feeding on hornets, mainly Vespa analis …