07.05.2013 USDA and EPA Release New Report on Honey Bee Health The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a comprehensive scientific report on honey bee health. The report states that there are multiple factors playing a role in ...

25.04.2013 Article alert: Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia), a controversial 21st century honey bee pathogen Environmental Microbiology Reports (2013) 5: 17–29. doi: 10.1111/1758-2229.12024Higes, M., Meana, A., Bartolomé, C., Botías, C. and Martín-Hernández, R. The worldwide beekeeping sector has...

25.04.2013 Article alert: Early onset of spring increases the phenological mismatch between plants and pollinators Ecology (2013) doi: 10.1890/12-2003.1Kudo G, Ida TYClimate warming accelerates the timings of flowering and insect pollinator emergence, especially in spring. If these phenological shifts progress independent...

25.04.2013 Article alert: Investigating plant–pollinator relationships in the Aegean: the approaches of the project POL-AEGIS (The pollinators of the Aegean archipelago: diversity and... IBRA (2013) 52(2): 106-117. doi: 10.3896/IBRA.1.52.2.20Petanidou T, Ståhls G, Vujić A, Olesen JM, Rojo S, Thrasyvoulou A, Sgardelis S, Kallimanis AS, Kokkini S, Tscheulin TWorldwide, there is a well...

22.04.2013 Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Biological Sciences Applications are invited for the post of Post Doctoral Research Assistant, at the Royal Holloway, University of London, to assess the potential impacts of exposure to multiple agricultural chemicals (pesticides and miticides)...

22.04.2013 Article alert: Wild Bees Visiting Cucumber on Midwestern U.S. Organic Farms Benefit from Near-Farm Semi-Natural Areas Journal of Economic Entomology (2013) 106(1): 97-106. doi: 10.1603/EC12007Smith AA, Bentley M, Reynolds HLWild bees that provide pollination services to vegetable crops depend on forage resources, nesting sit...

22.04.2013 Article alert: Dietary chlorantraniliprole suppresses reproduction in worker bumblebees Pest. Manag. Sci. (2013). doi: 10.1002/ps.3504Smagghe G, Deknopper J, Meeus I, Mommaerts VPollinators such as the bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, fulfil a crucial role in agriculture. In this context, te...

27.03.2013 Article alert: Climate warming and the potential extinction of fig wasps, the obligate pollinators of figs Biology Letters (2013) 9(3). doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0041Jevanandam N, Goh AG, Corlett RTFigs (Ficus) have a reciprocally obligate mutualism with tiny, short-lived (1–2 days) fig wasps (Agaonidae). The ...

22.03.2013 Article alert: Biodiversity buffers pollination from changes in environmental conditions Global Change Biology (2013) 19: 540–547. doi: 10.1111/gcb.12043Brittain, C., Kremen, C. and Klein, A.-MA hypothesized underlying principle of the diversity-functioning relationship is that functional groups ...

22.03.2013 Article alert: Urban land use limits regional bumble bee gene flow Molecular Ecology (2013) doi: 10.1111/mec.12275Jha, S. and Kremen, C.Potential declines in native pollinator communities and increased reliance on pollinator-dependent crops have raised concerns about native ...

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