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A century of local changes in bumblebee communities and landscape composition in Belgium

A new bee species of the genus Dasypoda Latreille (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) from Northwest Africa with comparative remarks on the subgenus Microdasypoda Michez

scientific article published in 2022

A new exposure protocol adapted for wild bees reveals species-specific impacts of the sulfoximine insecticide sulfoxaflor

scientific article published on 22 April 2024

A new interpretation of the bee fossil Melitta willardi Cockerell (Hymenoptera, Melittidae) based on geometric morphometrics of the wing

scientific article published on 14 March 2014

A new record of Thaumastobombus andreniformis Engel 2001 in Eocene amber (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scholarly article by Sébastien Patiny et al published January 2007 in Annales de la Société Entomologique de France

A new species of the palaearctic genus Dasypoda Latreille 1802 (Hymenoptera: Dasypodaidae) from the Great Rift Valley in Ethiopia ⬇️

scientific article published on 2 February 2012

A review of Panurgus (Pachycephalopanurgus), with the description of a new species from Spain ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 August 2005

A survey and review of the status of wild bees in the West-Palaearctic region

A synthesis of gynandromorphy among wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), with an annotated description of several new cases

scholarly article by Denis Michez et al published January 2009 in Annales de la Société Entomologique de France

A worthy conservation target? Revising the status of the rarest bumblebee of Europe

Adding attractive semio-chemical trait refines the taxonomy of Alpinobombus (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Addition to the checklist of IUCN European wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

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An Early Miocene bumble bee from northern Bohemia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

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An integrative taxonomic approach to assess the status of Corsican bumblebees: implications for conservation

article by Thomas Lecocq et al published 29 October 2014 in Animal Conservation

An overview of the Bombus terrestris (L. 1758) subspecies (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article (publication date: 2008)

An update and revision of the Andrena fauna of Morocco (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Andrenidae) with the description of eleven new North African species

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Andrena species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Andrenidae) from Western Algeria, with a preliminary assessment of their pollen preferences

scientific article published on 15 April 2021

Antiquity of cleptoparasitism among bees revealed by morphometric and phylogenetic analysis of a Paleocene fossil nomadine (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Assessment and conservation status of an endemic bee in a diversity hotspot (Hymenoptera, Melittidae, Dasypoda) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Author Correction: Phenological shifts alter the seasonal structure of pollinator assemblages in Europe

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Biogeography of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in Sahara and the Arabian deserts

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Biogeography, floral choices and redescription of Promelitta alboclypeata (Friese 1900) (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae)

scientific article published on 13 January 2009

Biologie, observations et collectes de trois espèces sœurs du genre Melitta Kirby, 1802 (Hymenoptera, Melittidae)

Bombus gerstaeckeri Morawitz, 1881 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) : observations sur la biologie d’un bourdon localisé et oligolectique

Bumble Bee Breeding on Artificial Pollen Substitutes

Bumble bee parasite prevalence but not genetic diversity impacted by the invasive plant Impatiens glandulifera

scientific article published in 2019

Bumblebee resilience to climate change, through plastic and adaptive responses

scientific article published on 12 June 2021

Bumblebees depend on ericaceous species to survive in temperate heathlands

Chemical reproductive traits of diploid Bombus terrestris males: Consequences on bumblebee conservation

scientific article

Climatic Risk and Distribution Atlas of European Bumblebees

Collection of nectar by bumblebees: how the physics of fluid demonstrates the prominent role of the tongue's morphology

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Comparative ecology of two specialist bees: Dasypoda visnaga Rossi, 1790 and Dasypoda maura Pérez, 1895 (Hymenoptera, Melittidae)

scientific article

Comparative phylogeography of five bumblebees: impact of range fragmentation, range size and diet specialization

article by Simon Dellicour et al published 21 August 2015 in Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Conservation genetics of European bees: new insights from the continental scale

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Conserving wild bees for crop pollination: efficiency of bee hotels in Moroccan cherry orchards (<i>Prunus avium</i>)

scientific article published on 30 March 2022

Contrasting patterns of genetic and morphological diversity in the bumblebee Bombus lucorum (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) along a European gradient

scientific article published on 17 September 2019

Contribution to the knowledge of the bumblebee fauna of Afghanistan (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus Latreille)

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Convivina is a specialised core gut symbiont of the invasive hornet Vespa velutina

Dasypoda braccata Eversmann (Hymenoptera, Dasypodaidae), nouvelle espèce pour l’apidofaune italienne

Dasypoda delectabilis sp. nov., a morphologically intriguing pantaloon bee species from south-eastern Iran (Hymenoptera: Melittidae)

scientific article published in 2023

Dasypoda morawitzi Radchenko 2016 (Apoidea - Melittidae - Dasypodaini), une espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France

scientific article published on 03 October 2020

Description of four new species in the bee genus Melitta Kirby, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Melittidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 7 June 2012

Design and Planning of a Transdisciplinary Investigation into Farmland Pollinators: Rationale, Co-Design, and Lessons Learned

Diet effects on bumblebee health.

scientific article published on 8 November 2016

Discrimination of haploid and diploid males of Bombus terrestris (Hymenoptera; Apidae) based on wing shape

scholarly article by Maxence Gerard et al published 27 February 2015 in Apidologie

Distribution and flower visitation records of bumblebees in Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

scientific article published on 27 May 2020

Distribution and predictors of wing shape and size variability in three sister species of solitary bees.

scientific article

Distribution of bumblebees across Europe

Divergent geographic patterns of genetic diversity among wild bees: Conservation implications

scientific article published in 2018

Do floral resources influence pollination rates and subsequent fruit set in pear ( Pyrus communis L.) and apple ( Malus x domestica Borkh) cultivars?

article by Muriel Quinet et al published July 2016 in European Journal of Agronomy

DoesAconitum septentrionalechemically protect floral rewards to the advantage of specialist bumblebees?

scientific article published in 2013

Dominance of honey bees is negatively associated with wild bee diversity in commercial apple orchards regardless of management practices

scientific article published in 2022

Drastic shifts in the Belgian bumblebee community over the last century

Early spring floral foraging resources for pollinators in wet heathlands in Belgium

Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2016)

Ecological niche modelling and coalescent simulations to explore the recent geographical range history of five widespread bumblebee species in Europe

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Ensuring access to high-quality resources reduces the impacts of heat stress on bees

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Essential role of papillae flexibility in nectar capture by bees

scientific article published in 2021

Evaluation of Tandem Mass Spectrometry Experiments in the Negative Ionization Mode for Phenolamide Regioisomer Characterization

Expanding insect pollinators in the A nthropocene

Factors limiting the species richness of bees in Saharan Africa.

scientific article

Following the cold: geographical differentiation between interglacial refugia and speciation in the arcto-alpine species complexBombus monticola(Hymenoptera: Apidae) ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2018

Food in a row: urban trees offer valuable floral resources to pollinating insects

Fossil bees and their plant associates

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Generalized host-plant feeding can hide sterol-specialized foraging behaviors in bee-plant interactions

scientific article published on 14 December 2019

Genomic Patterns of Iberian Wild Bees Reveal Levels of Diversity, Differentiation and Population Structure, Supporting the “Refugia within Refugia” Hypothesis

Geometric morphometric analysis of a new Miocene bumble bee from the Randeck Maar of southwestern Germany (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

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Giant ants and their shape: revealing relationships in the genus Titanomyrma with geometric morphometrics

scientific article published on 16 January 2018

Global effects of extreme temperatures on wild bumblebees

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Global patterns in bumble bee pollen collection show phylogenetic conservation of diet

scientific article published on 06 June 2021

Global warming and plant-pollinator mismatches

scientific article published on 01 July 2020

Growth Rate of Bumblebee Larvae is Related to Pollen Amino Acids.

scientific article published on 18 September 2015

Heat resistance variability in the Lebanese bee fauna

scientific article published on 29 April 2024

Heather pollen is not necessarily a healthy diet for bumble bees

scientific article published in 2023

How does pollen chemistry impact development and feeding behaviour of polylectic bees?

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Hyperthermic stress resistance of bumblebee males: test case of Belgian species

Impact of landscape fragmentation and climate change on body size variation of bumblebees during the last century

scientific article published in 2020

Impact of past climatic changes and resource availability on the population demography of three food-specialist bees

scientific article

Impact of pollen resources drift on common bumblebees in NW Europe

scientific article published on 28 May 2016

Insect meal as feed: discrimination of particles issued from authorised and unauthorised species using Near Infrared Microscopy (NIRM)

scientific article published on 23 May 2024

Insects as indicators of <scp>Key Biodiversity Areas</scp>

scientific article published on 17 January 2024

Integrative taxonomy of an arctic bumblebee species complex highlights a new cryptic species (Apidae: Bombus) ⬇️

scientific article published in 2019

Interspecific Variation in Bumblebee Performance on Pollen Diet: New Insights for Mitigation Strategies.

scientific article

Intraspecific size shifts in generalist bumblebees and flowers lead to low functional consequences

scientific article published in 2023

Invasive plants as potential food resource for native pollinators: A case study with two invasive species and a generalist bumble bee. ⬇️

scientific article

Is non-host pollen suitable for generalist bumblebees?

scientific article published on 12 October 2016

La nouvelle classification des abeilles (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Apiformes) ou la chute de l'abeille mellifère (Apis mellifera L.) de son piédestal

scientific article published on 12 September 2020

Lettre éditoriale : sur les pas de STEP

Long-legged bees make adaptive leaps: linking adaptation to coevolution in a plant-pollinator network.

scientific article published in September 2017

Long-term effects of global change on occupancy and flight period of wild bees in Belgium

scientific article published on 05 October 2020

Managed honey bees as a radar for wild bee decline?

Mating under climate change: Impact of simulated heatwaves on the reproduction of model pollinators

scientific article published in 2020

Mechanisms involved in pearlfish resistance to holothuroid toxins

scientific article published in 2016

Methods for species delimitation in bumblebees (Hymenoptera, Apidae,Bombus): towards an integrative approach

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Micro-Quantitative Method for Analysis of Sterol Levels in Honeybees and Their Pollen Loads

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Microbiota and pathogens in an invasive bee: Megachile sculpturalis from native and invaded regions

Microsatellite analysis in museum samples reveals inbreeding before the regression of Bombus veteranus

Molecular and chemical characters to evaluate species status of two cuckoo bumblebees: Bombus barbutellus and Bombus maxillosus (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini)

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Molecular phylogeny, biogeography, and host plant shifts in the bee genus Melitta (Hymenoptera: Anthophila).

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Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies

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Monitoring of parasites in bumblebee colonies developed from controlled nesting of wild queens (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)

Monographic revision of the bee genusMelittaKirby 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae)

scholarly article by Denis Michez & Connal Eardley published January 2007 in Annales de la Société Entomologique de France

Morphometric analysis of fossil bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) reveals their taxonomic affinities

scientific article

National records of 3000 European bee and hoverfly species: A contribution to pollinator conservation

scientific article published in 2023

New data on the morphology and distribution of the cryptic species Dasypoda morawitzi Radchenko, 2016 (Hymenoptera: Melittidae) with corrections to the diagnosis of Dasypoda s. str

New fossil evidence of the early diversification of bees:Paleohabropoda oudardifrom the French Paleocene (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Anthophorini)

scientific article published in March 2009

New insights on the distribution and floral choices of Systropha Illiger, 1806 in Africa (Hymenoptera, Apoidea), with description of a new species from Sudan ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 April 2007

New records of bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) from Morocco

scientific article published on 14 June 2024

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

scientific article published in 2022

Oligolectisme de Bombus brodmannicus delmasi Tkalců, 1973 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) : observations et analyses

Oligolectisme et décalage phénologique entre plante hôte et pollinisateur : étude de deux espèces printanières psammophiles, Colletes cunicularius (L.) (Hymenoptera, Colletidae) et Andrena vaga (Panzer) (Hymenoptera, Andrenidae)

Patterns of genetic and reproductive traits differentiation in Mainland vs. Corsican populations of bumblebees

scientific article

Patterns of size variation in bees at a continental scale: does Bergmann's rule apply?

scientific article published in 2018

Phenological shifts alter the seasonal structure of pollinator assemblages in Europe

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Phylogenetic analysis of the bee genus Capicola with the description of Capicola hantamensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Dasypodaidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 April 2007

Phylogenetic analysis of theSystrophaIlliger 1806 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Halictidae) and description of a new subgenus

scholarly article by Sébastien Patiny & Denis Michez published January 2006 in Annales de la Société Entomologique de France

Phylogenetic relationships and host-plant evolution within the basal clade of Halictidae (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

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Phylogeny and host-plant evolution in Melittidaes.l.(Hymenoptera: Apoidea)

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Phylogeny of the bee family Melittidae (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) based on combined molecular and morphological data

scholarly article by Denis Michez et al published 11 June 2009 in Systematic Entomology

Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the mining bee family Andrenidae

scientific article published in 2021

Phylogénie, biogéographie et choix floraux des abeilles oligolectiques du genreDasypodaLatreille 1802 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae)

scholarly article by Denis Michez et al published January 2004 in Annales de la Société Entomologique de France

Playing with extremes: Origins and evolution of exaggerated female forelegs in South African Rediviva bees.

scientific article

Poison or Potion: Effects of Sunflower Phenolamides on Bumble Bees and Their Gut Parasite

Pollen Protein: Lipid Macronutrient Ratios May Guide Broad Patterns of Bee Species Floral Preferences

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Pollen and nectar quality drive the major and minor floral choices of bumble bees

scientific article published on 05 August 2014

Pollen as Bee Medicine: Is Prevention Better than Cure?

Pollen dispersal and fruit production in Vaccinium oxycoccos and comparison with its sympatric congener V. uliginosum.

scientific article published on 23 July 2012

Pollen nutrients better explain bumblebee colony development than pollen diversity

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PoshBee: Pan-European Assessment, Monitoring, and Mitigation of Stressors on the Health of Bees

scientific article published on 17 August 2021

Preserving the only endemic vascular plant taxon in Belgium in a highly anthropogenic landscape

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Projected decline in European bumblebee populations in the twenty-first century

scientific article published on 13 September 2023

Redescription of three rare species of Dasypoda bees with first description of D. iberica and D. tibialis females (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Melittidae)

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Resolving the species status of overlooked West‐Palaearctic bumblebees

scientific article published in 2021

Revision of the bee genus Capicola (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae) distributed in the Southwest of Africa

scientific article published on 25 April 2007

Revisions to the faunas of Andrena of the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco with the descriptions of four new species (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Role of pollen flavonoids in the heather-bumble bee-parasite interactions

Scent of a break-up: phylogeography and reproductive trait divergences in the red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)

scientific article

Sexual attraction: a review of bumblebee male pheromones

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

Shift in size of bumblebee queens over the last century

scientific article published on 29 November 2019

Soil eutrophication shaped the composition of pollinator assemblages during the past century

scientific article published in 2019

Species of the Western Palaearctic Genus Tetralonia Spinola, 1838 (Hymenoptera, Apidae) with Atypical Pollen Hosts, with a Key to the pollinosa-Group, Description of New Species, and Neotype Designation for Apis malvae Rossi, 1790

scientific article published in 2024

Species richness declines and biotic homogenisation have slowed down for NW-European pollinators and plants ⬇️

scientific article

Standardized protocol to evaluate pollen polypeptides as bee food source

Sterol addition during pollen collection by bees: another possible strategy to balance nutrient deficiencies?

scientific article published on 01 May 2020

Stressful conditions reveal decrease in size, modification of shape but relatively stable asymmetry in bumblebee wings

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Subgeneric classification of the bee genus Rediviva Friese (Hymenoptera: Apiformes: Melittidae)

scientific article published on 11 June 2020

Systematics of the bee subgenus Systropha (Austrosystropha) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae): Description of a new species and proposal of a new sex association

scientific article (publication date: 13 May 2013)

Taxonomic affinity of halictid bee fossils (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) based on geometric morphometrics analyses of wing shape

scholarly article by Thibaut De Meulemeester et al published December 2012 in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Taxonomic revision of the Sylvarum group of bumblebees using an integrative approach

scientific article published in 2020

The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: DNA barcodes of Iberian Bees

scientific article published in 2024

The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: contribution to the knowledge on DNA barcodes of cuckoo wasps, with the description of new species from the Iberian Peninsula (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae)

scientific article published in 2023

The abundance and pollen foraging behaviour of bumble bees in relation to population size of whortleberry (Vaccinium uliginosum).

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The alien's identity: consequences of taxonomic status for the international bumblebee trade regulations

The bee genera Haplomelitta and Samba (Hymenoptera:Anthophila:Melittidae): phylogeny, biogeography and host plants

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The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Maltese Islands

scientific article (publication date: 9 September 2016)

The bees of Lebanon (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)

scientific article published on 27 May 2021

The impact of molecular data on our understanding of bee phylogeny and evolution.

scientific article

The impact of pollen quality on the sensitivity of bumblebees to pesticides

scientific article published in 2020

The importance of pollen chemistry in evolutionary host shifts of bees.

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The oldest fossil of a melittid bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) from the early Eocene of Oise (France)

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The utility of wing morphometrics for assigning type specimens to cryptic bumblebee species

The wild bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) of the island of Cyprus

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

The wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Morocco

scientific article published on 07 December 2020

Unexpected Polylecty in the Bee Genus Meganomia (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae)

scholarly article by D. Michez et al published July 2010 in Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Unexpected discovery of a near cryptic Dasypoda species in southern Spain (Hymenoptera: Melittidae)

scholarly article, published in 2023

Urbanization drives an early spring for plants but not for pollinators

scientific article published in 2020

Variations in Nutritional Requirements Across Bee Species

scientific article published in 2022

Wild vegetation and ‘farming with alternative pollinators’ approach support pollinator diversity in farmland

Wildlife conservation strategies should incorporate both taxon identity and geographical context ‐ further evidence with bumblebees

scientific article published in 2020

Wing shape of four new bee fossils (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) provides insights to bee evolution

scientific article published in 2014

World revision of the oil-collecting bee genusMacropisPanzer 1809 (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Melittidae) with a description of a new species from Laos

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Éditorial : une nouvelle lettre de contact pour les hyménoptéristes apidologues

‘Farming with alternative pollinators’ approach supports diverse and abundant pollinator community in melon fields in a semi-arid landscape

Book review: The Bumblebees of the Himalaya – An Identification Guide, by Paul H. Williams ⬇️

scientific article published on 31 October 2022

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