pan-european assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of stressors on the health of bees

Here, you will find all public PoshBee deliverables as well as all scientific publications resulting from or relevant to the project.

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Sulfoxaflor exposure reduces bumblebee reproductive success

Authors: Siviter, H., Brown, M.J.F., & Leadbeater, E.

Year: 2018

Journal: Nature

Volume/Issue: 561/7721

Publisher/Place: Nature Publishing Group

Pages: 109-112

URL/DOI: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0430-6

Nutritional stress exacerbates impact of a novel insecticide on solitary bees’ behaviour, reproduction and survival

Authors: Knauer, A.C. et al.

Year: 2022

Journal: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volume/Issue: 289

Pages: 20221013

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1013

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Letter to the editors regarding Battisti et al. (2021): Is glyphosate toxic to bees? A meta-analytical review

Authors: Straw, E.A.

Year: 2021

Journal: Science of The Total Environment

Volume/Issue: 790

Publisher/Place: Elsevier BV

Pages: 147556

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147556

Molecular histoproteomy by MALDI mass spectrometry imaging to uncover markers of the impact of Nosema On Apis mellifera

Authors: Houdelet, C., Arafah, K., Bocquet, M., & Bulet, P.

Year: 2022

Journal: Proteomics

Volume/Issue: 22 (9)

Publisher/Place: Wiley-VCH

Pages: e2100224

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.202100224

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Clothianidin seed-treatment has no detectable negative impact on honeybee colonies and their pathogens

Authors: Osterman, J., Wintermantel, D., Locke, B. et al.

Year: 2019

Journal: Nature Communications

Volume/Issue: 10:692

Publisher/Place: Nature Research

Pages: 1–13

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08523-4

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Delayed effects of a single dose of a neurotoxic pesticide (sulfoxaflor) on honeybee foraging activity

Authors: Barascou, L., Requier, F., Sené, D., Crauser, D., Le Conte, Y., & Alaux, C.

Year: 2022

Journal: Science of The Total Environment

Volume/Issue: 805

Publisher/Place: Elsevier BV

Pages: 150351

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150351

The Lifecycle of the Varroa Mite

Authors: Attridge, E.

Year: 2023

Journal: BBKA News Incorporating

Volume/Issue: February 2023

Pages: 63-64

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Responses in honeybee and bumblebee activity to changes in weather conditions

Authors: Karbassioon, A., Yearlsey, J., Dirilgen, T. et al.

Year: 2023

Journal: Oecologia

Volume/Issue: 582

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-023-05332-x

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Beyond generalists: The Brassicaceae pollen specialist Osmia brevicornis as a prospective model organism when exploring pesticide risk to bees

Authors: Hellström, S., Strobl, V., Straub, L., Osterman, W.H.A., Paxton, R.J., & Osterman, J.

Year: 2023

Journal: Environmental and Sustainability Indicators

Volume/Issue: 18

Pages: 100239

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indic.2023.100239

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A Combined LD50 for Agrochemicals and Pathogens in Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris [Hymenoptera: Apidae])

Authors: Siviter, H., Matthews, A.J., & Brown, M.J.F.

Year: 2022

Journal: Environmental Entomology

Publisher/Place: Oxford Academic

Pages: 1–7

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvab139

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No evidence of effects or interaction between the widely used herbicide, glyphosate, and a common parasite in bumble bees

Authors: Straw, E.A., & Brown, M.J.F.

Year: 2021

Journal: PeerJ

Volume/Issue: 9:e12486

Publisher/Place: O'Reilly and SAGE

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12486

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Unraveling the Bombus terrestris Hemolymph, an Indicator of the Immune Response to Microbial Infections, through Complementary Mass Spectrometry Approaches

Authors: Bournonville, L., Askri, D., Arafah, K., Voisin, S.N., Bocquet, M., & Bulet, P.

Year: 2023

Journal: J. Mol. Sci.

Volume/Issue: 24

Pages: 4658

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24054658

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Parasite and Pesticide Impacts on the Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) Haemolymph Proteome

Authors: Askri, D., Straw, E.A., Arafah, K., Voisin, S.N., Bocquet, M., Brown, M.J.F., & Bulet, P.

Year: 2023

Journal: Int. J. Mol. Sci.

Volume/Issue: 24

Pages: 5384

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms24065384

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The Beneficial Effect of Pollen on Varroa Infested Bees Depends on Its Influence on Behavioral Maturation Genes

Authors: Frizzera, D., Ray, A.M., Seffin, E., Zanni, V., Annoscia, D., Grozinger, C.M., & Nazzi, F.

Year: 2022

Journal: Frontiers in Insect Science

Volume/Issue: 2

Publisher/Place: Insect Physiology

Pages: 864238

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/finsc.2022.864238

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Building composite indices in the age of big data – Application to honey bee exposure to infectious and parasitic agents

Authors: Huyen Ton Nu Nguyet, M., Bougeard, S., Babin, A., Dubois, E., Druesne, C., Riviere, M.P., Laurent, M., & Chauzat, M.P.

Year: 2023

Journal: Heliyon

Volume/Issue: 9

Pages: E15244

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15244

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Co-formulant in a commercial fungicide product causes lethal and sub-lethal effects in bumble bees

Authors: Straw, E.A., & Brown, M.J.F.

Year: 2021

Journal: Scientific Reports

Volume/Issue: 11

Publisher/Place: Nature Research

Pages: 21653

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-00919-x

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Miniaturized multiresidue method for determination of 267 pesticides, their metabolites and polychlorinated biphenyls in low mass beebread samples by liquid and gas chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry

Authors: Kiljanek, T., Niewiadowska, A., Małysiak, M., & Posyniak, A.

Year: 2021

Journal: Talanta

Volume/Issue: 235

Publisher/Place: Elsevier

Pages: 122721

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2021.122721

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Flowering resources modulate the sensitivity of bumblebees to a common fungicide

Authors: Wintermantel, D., Pereira-Peixoto, M-H., Warth, N., Melcher, K., Faller, M., & Feurer, J.

Year: 2022

Journal: Science of the Total Environment

Volume/Issue: 829:154450

Publisher/Place: Elsevier

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154450

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No evidence for impaired solitary bee fitness following pre-flowering sulfoxaflor application alone or in combination with a common fungicide in a semi-field experiment

Authors: Schwarz, J.M., Knauer, A.C., Allan, M.J., Dean, R.R., Ghazoul, J., Tamburini, G., Wintermantel, D., Klein, A-M., & Albrecht, M.

Year: 2022

Journal: Environment International

Volume/Issue: 164:107252

Publisher/Place: Elsevier BV

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2022.107252

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Pollen nutrition fosters honeybee tolerance to pesticides

Authors: Barascou, L., et al.

Year: 2021

Journal: Royal Society Open Science

Volume/Issue: 8 (9)

Publisher/Place: Royal Society

Pages: 210818

URL/DOI: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210818

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