Apidologie

Article	Citations
Managed honey bees as a radar for wild bee decline?	57
Perspectives on hygienic behavior in Apis mellifera and other social insects	46
The stingless bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini): a review of the current threats to their survival	31
Stingless bee honey (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): a review of quality control, chemical profile, and biological potential	30
Capacity of honeybees to remove heavy metals from nectar and excrete the contaminants from their bodies	28
Response mechanisms to heat stress in bees	28
Nutritional and prebiotic efficacy of the microalga Arthrospira platensis (spirulina) in honey bees	26
Scientific note: often quoted, but not factual data about propolis composition	26
How diverse is the chemistry and plant origin of Brazilian propolis?	25
Differences in honey bee bacterial diversity and composition in agricultural and pristine environments – a field study	22
A brief review of monolecty in bees and benefits of a broadened definition	22
Wide genetic diversity in Old World honey bees threaten by introgression	21
Genetic past, present, and future of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) in the United States of America	20
Don’t stay out too long! Thermal tolerance of the stingless bees Melipona subnitida decreases with increasing exposure time to elevated temperatures	19
Effects of selection and local adaptation on resilience and economic suitability in Apis mellifera carnica	18
Nutrigenetic comparison of two Varroa-resistant honey bee stocks fed pollen and spirulina microalgae	15
Thermoregulation in the large carpenter bee Xylocopa frontalis in the face of climate change in the Neotropics	15
Testis development and spermatogenesis in drones of the honey bee, Apis mellifera L.	14
Changes in the wing-beat frequency of bees and wasps depending on environmental conditions: a study with optical sensors	14
Changes of selected biochemical parameters of the honeybee under the influence of an electric field at 50 Hz and variable intensities	13
A short history of studies on intelligence and brain in honeybees	13
Body size but not age influences phototaxis in bumble bee (Bombus terrestris, L.) workers	13
Elevated recapping behaviour and reduced Varroa destructor reproduction in natural Varroa resistant Apis mellifera honey bees from the UK	12
Overview of the testing and assessment of effects of microbial pesticides on bees: strengths, challenges and perspectives	12
Effects of residual doses of neonicotinoid (imidacloprid) on metabolic rate of queen honey bees Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	12

Genome-wide characterization of coding and non-coding RNAs in the ovary of honeybee workers and queens	12
Effects of late miticide treatments on foraging and colony productivity of European honey bees (Apis mellifera)	12
Vitellogenin in the honey bee midgut	12
Island bees: do wood nesting bees have better island dispersal abilities?	11
Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies	11
Hyperthermic stress resistance of bumblebee males: test case of Belgian species	11
Glyphosate commercial formulation negatively affects the reproductive success of solitary wild bees in a Pampean agroecosystem	11
How city traits affect taxonomic and functional diversity of urban wild bee communities: insights from a worldwide analysis	11
Temporal and spatial foraging patterns of three Asian honey bee species in Bangalore, India	11
Synthetic and natural acaricides impair hygienic and foraging behaviors of honey bees	11
Efficacy and temperature dependence of 60% and 85% formic acid treatment against Varroa destructor	11
Decline of native bees (Apidae: Euglossa) in a tropical forest of Panama	10
The Bee Chromosome database (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	9
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor	9
Estimating bee abundance: can mark-recapture methods validate common sampling protocols?	9
A gene drive does not spread easily in populations of the honey bee parasite Varroa destructor	9
Sterol addition during pollen collection by bees: another possible strategy to balance nutrient deficiencies?	9
Scientific note on small hive beetle infestation of stingless bee (Tetragonula carbonaria) colony following a heat wave	9
The geographical origin, refugia, and diversification of honey bees (Apis spp.) based on biogeography and niche modeling	9
Insights into Ethiopian honey bee diversity based on wing geomorphometric and mitochondrial DNA analyses	8
Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals regulatory genes involved in cold tolerance and hypoxic adaptation of high-altitude Tibetan bumblebees	8
Scientific note: Imidacloprid found in wild plants downstream permanent greenhouses in Sweden	8
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	8
Valorization of hop leaves for development of eco-friendly bee pesticides	8
Genetic diversity of wild and managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) in Southwestern Pennsylvania, and prevalence of the microsporidian gut pathogens Nosema ceranae and N. apis	8
Acute toxicity of sublethal concentrations of thiacloprid and clothianidin to immune response and oxidative status of honey bees	8
Red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) thermal preferences for nest sites and their effects on offspring survival	8
Lower pollen nutritional quality delays nest building and egg laying in Bombus terrestris audax micro-colonies leading to reduced biomass gain	8
Reproduction of Varroa destructor does not elicit varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) or recapping behaviour in honey bee colonies (Apis mellifera)	8
The energetic and survival costs of Varroa parasitism in honeybees	8
Beyond brood: the potential impacts of insect growth disruptors on the long-term health and performance of honey bee colonies	7
Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	7
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	7
Identification and functional characterization of AcerOBP15 from Apis cerana cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	7
Influence of honey bee seasonal phenotype and emerging conditions on diet behavior and susceptibility to imidacloprid	7
Apis laboriosa confirmed by morphometric and genetic analyses of giant honey bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from sites of sympatry in Arunachal Pradesh, North East India	7
Changes in innate immune response and detoxification in Melipona quadrifasciata (Apinae: Meliponini) on oral exposure to azadirachtin and spinosad	7
Cold stress induces specific antioxidant responses in honey bee brood	7
Side effects of imidacloprid, ethion, and hexaflumuron on adult and larvae of honey bee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae)	7
Species turnover and low stability in a community of euglossine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) sampled within 28 years in an urban forest fragment	7
Climate-associated shifts in color and body size for a tropical bee pollinator	6
Species diversity, morphometrics, and nesting biology of Chinese stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini)	6
The dose makes the poison: feeding of antibiotic-treated winter honey bees, Apis mellifera, with probiotics and b-vitamins	6
Stingless bees in urban areas: low body size and high frequency of diploid males at mating congregations of Nannotrigona perilampoides (Hymenoptera: Meliponini) in Mérida, Yucatán, México	6
Genetic diversity of the complementary sex-determiner (csd) gene in two closed breeding stocks of Varroa -resistant honey bees	6
You are what you eat: relative importance of diet, gut microbiota and nestmates for honey bee, Apis mellifera, worker health	6
The honey bee genome-- what has it been good for?	6
Alcohol intoxication resistance and alcohol dehydrogenase levels differ between the honeybee castes	6
Comparative cytogenetic analysis of three species of the genus Partamona (Apidae, Meliponini)	6
Three pillars of Varroa control	6

The upward tilt of honeycomb cells increases the carrying capacity of the comb and is not to prevent the outflow of honey	6
Crushing corn pollen grains increased diet digestibility and hemolymph protein content while decreasing honey bee consumption	6
Mild thermal stress does not negatively affect immune gene expression in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris	6
Differences in pre-imaginal development of the honey bee Apis mellifera between in vitro and in-hive contexts	6
Karyotypic variation in the stingless bee Trigona spinipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) from different geographical regions of Brazil	6
Winter activity unrelated to introgression in British bumblebee Bombus terrestris audax	6
Evidence of sociality in European small Carpenter bees (Ceratina)	6
Biome variation, not distance between populations, explains morphological variability in the orchid bee Eulaema nigrita (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Euglossini)	6
Chronic exposure to a field-realistic concentration of Closer® SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide impacted the growth and foraging activity of honey bee colonies	5
Evaluating honey bee foraging behaviour and their impact on pollination success in a mixed almond orchard	5
A direct assay to assess self-grooming behavior in honey bees (Apis mellifera L.)	5
Hygroscopic larval provisions of bees absorb soil water vapor and release liquefied nutrients	5
Nectar concentrating behavior by bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)	5
Coeffects of diet and neonicotinoid exposure on honeybee mobility and food choice	5
Interaction between Vespula germanica and Apis mellifera in Patagonia Argentina apiaries	5
Acaricidal activity of essential oils for the control of honeybee (Apis mellifera) mites Tropilaelaps mercedesae under laboratory and colony conditions	5
CYP6AS8, a cytochrome P450, is associated with the 10-HDA biosynthesis in honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers	5
The influence of acetamiprid and deltamethrin on the mortality and behaviour of honeybees (Apis mellifera carnica Pollman) in oilseed rape cultivations	5
Bee surveys in Brazil in the last six decades: a review and scientometrics	5
A new design of bee cage for laboratory experiments: nutritional assessment of supplemental diets in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	5
Sporopollenin as a dilution agent in artificial diets for solitary bees	5
A fully automatic classification of bee species from wing images	5
Possibility to change the body size in worker bees by a combination of small-cell and standard-cell combs in the same nest	5
Deconstructing and contextualizing foraging behavior in bumble bees and other central place foragers	5
Mite diversity is determined by the stingless bee host species	5
Charles Henry Turner and the cognitive behavior of bees	4
Honeybee workers with higher reproductive potential have a greater learning ability	4
Is acetamiprid really not that harmful to bumblebees (Apidae: Bombus spp.)?	4
Honey bee colonies maintain CO2 and temperature regimes in spite of change in hive ventilation characteristics	4
Differences in grooming behavior between susceptible and resistant honey bee colonies after 13 years of natural selection	4
Meta-analysis on the effect of bacterial interventions on honey bee productivity and the treatment of infection	4
Managed honeybee hives and the diversity of wild bees in a dryland nature reserve	4
Caste differentiation of spermatheca and organs related to sperm use and oviposition in the honeybee, Apis mellifera	4
Sublethal effects of herbicides clethodim, haloxyfop-P-methyl, and their mixture on honey bee health	4
Inter- and intra-population B chromosome variability in Partamona helleri (Apidae: Meliponini)	4
Understanding pollinator foraging behaviour and transition rates between flowers is important to maximize seed set in hybrid crops	4
Effects of commercial queen rearing methods on queen fecundity and genome methylation	4
Structure of Fejes Tóth cells in natural honey bee combs	4
Varroa destructor rearing in laboratory conditions: importance of foundress survival in doubly infested cells and reproduction of laboratory-born females	4
Oxidative stress and apoptosis in Asian honey bees (A. cerana) exposed to multiple pesticides in intensive agricultural landscape	4
Varroa resistance in Apis cerana: a review	4
A scientific note defining allelic nomenclature standards for the highly diverse complementary sex-determiner (csd) locus in honey bees	4
Comparative transcriptome analysis of hypopharyngeal glands from nurse and forager bees of Apis mellifera with the same age	4
Influence of the agricultural landscape surrounding Apis mellifera colonies on the presence of pesticides in honey	4
Protection of honeybees and other pollinators: one global study	4
Lethal and sublethal effects of different biopesticides on Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	4
Genetic diversity and population genetic structure analysis of Apis mellifera subspecies in Algeria and Europe based on complementary sex determiner (CSD) gene	4
Oil flowers of Malpighiaceae and its oil-collecting bees: loyalty and robbery in a highly specialized system	4
Effect of climate seasonality and vegetation cover on floral resource selection by two stingless bee species	4
The influence of available comb storage space on the performance of honey bee communication signals that regulate foraging	3
Methoprene, a juvenile hormone analogue, modifies maturation and emergence in overwintering Osmia rufa L. adults	3
Three-dimensional morphology of the hypertrophied sex pheromone gland in a lek-mating carpenter bee (Xylocopa sonorina) revealed by micro computed tomography and scanning electron microscopy	3
Assessing Varroa destructor acaricide resistance in Apis mellifera colonies of Virginia	3
Transcriptomic analysis suggests candidate genes for hygienic behavior in African-derived Apis mellifera honeybees	3
Chronic in-hive exposure to a field-relevant concentration of Closer™ SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide altered immunological and physiological markers of honey bee foragers (Apis mellifera)	3
Monitoring of hive weight changes in various landscapes	3
Bee community composition, but not diversity, is influenced by floret size in cultivated sunflowers	3
Environmental conditions and beekeeping practices associated with Nosema ceranae presence in Argentina	3
Nearly half of spring-flying male Andrena bees consume pollen, but less than female conspecifics	3
Landscape influences genetic diversity but does not limit gene flow in a Neotropical pollinator	3
Effect of stearin and paraffin adulteration of beeswax on brood survival	3
Genetic analyses reveal female philopatric behavior and nest usage by multiple females of the solitary oil-collecting bee Tetrapedia diversipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	3
Current status of the small hive beetle Aethina tumida in Latin America	3
Lithium chloride leads to concentration dependent brood damages in honey bee hives (Apis mellifera) during control of the mite Varroa destructor	3
Rapid transformation of traditional beekeeping and colony marketing erode genetic differentiation in Apis mellifera simensis, Ethiopia	3
A geometric morphometric method and web application for identifying honey bee species (Apis spp.) using only forewings	3
Vitellogenin of the solitary bees Centris tarsata and Centris analis (Hymenoptera: Apidae): cDNA structural analysis and gene expression	3
Evaluation of a new plant-based formulation for the treatment of varroosis in the honey bee colonies: efficacy and safety	3
Synergistic effects of imidacloprid and high temperature on honey bee colonies	3
Methoxyfenozide has minimal effects on replacement queens but may negatively affect sperm storage	3
Drone cell cappings of Asian cavity-nesting honey bees (Apis spp.)	3
Effects of imidacloprid on survival and nest development in the neo-tropical bumblebee Bombus ephippiatus	3
Current genetic diversity of managed and commercially produced Apis mellifera colonies in Argentina inferred by wing geometric morphometrics and COI-COII mtDNA locus	2
CT-supported analysis of the destructive effects of Varroa destructor on the pre-imaginal development of honey bee, Apis mellifera	2
The use of drone congregation behaviour for population surveys of the honey bee Apis cerana	2
A qPCR assay for sensitive and rapid detection of African A-lineage honey bees (Apis mellifera)	2
The role of botanical treatments used in apiculture to control arthropod pests	2
Decoding the dance parameters of eastern honeybee, Apis cerana	2
Field relevant doses of the fipronil affects gene expression in honey bees Apis mellifera	2
Development, behaviour, productivity, and health status of the native honey bee Apis mellifera ruttneri vs. the introduced A. m. ligustica in Malta	2

Timing of drone flights and observations of other colony behaviors of Apis laboriosa in northern Vietnam	2
Split or combine? Effects of repeated sampling and data pooling on the estimation of colony numbers obtained from drone genotyping	2
Minus-C subfamily has diverged from Classic odorant-binding proteins in honeybees	2
Insect sociality plays a major role in a highly complex flower-visiting network in the neotropical savanna	2
Identification of reference genes for gene expression analysis at different developmental stages of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	2
The effects of instrumental insemination on selected and unselected breeding characteristics in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)	2
Flower choice by the stingless bee Tetragonula carbonaria is not influenced by colour-similarity to a higher-reward flower in the same patch	2
Pollen columns and a wax canopy in a first nest description of Bombus (Cullumanobombus) morrisoni (Apidae)	2
Honey proteome of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris: similarities, differences, and exceptionality compared to honey bee honey as signatures of eusociality evolution	2
A scientific note on the strategy of wax collection as rare behavior of Apis mellifera	2
Body size and age of drone honeybees (Apis mellifera) affect the structure and characteristics of mating congregations via dispersal	2
Seasonality of bumblebee spillover between strawberry crops and adjacent pinewoods	2
The reliability of honey bee density estimates from trapped drones	2
Small hive beetle, Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae): chemical profile of the cuticle and possible chemical mimicry in a honeybee (Apis mellifera) pest	2
Males from multiple colonies improve queen mating success in the bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	2
Disparate continental scale patterns in floral host breadth of Australian colletid bees (Colletidae: Hymenoptera)	2
The significance of Apis cerana cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae) gnawing off the old brood cells	2
A fungal-based pesticide does not harm pollination service provided by the African stingless bee Meliponula ferruginea on cucumber (Cucumis sativus)	2
Reproductive behavior of the oil-collecting bee Epicharis dejeanii (Apidae: Centridini)	2
Mating behaviour of the large-head resin bee Heriades truncorum (Megachilidae: Osminii) suggests female plastic strategy in selection of a mating partner and male quality assessment	2
Transcriptome analysis reveals differentially expressed genes between the ovary and testis of the honey bee Apis mellifera	2
Founder gene pool composition and genealogical structure in two populations of Austrian Carniolan honey bees (Apis mellifera carnica) as derived from pedigree analysis	2