Apimondia Newsletter - February 2024
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World Bee Day is observed on 20 May each year to draw attention to the essential role bees and other pollinators play in keeping people and the planet healthy. |
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22-02-2024 |
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Are bee diseases linked to pesticides? A brief review
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The negative impacts of pesticides, in particular insecticides, on bees and other pollinators have never been disputed. Insecticides can directly kill these vital insects, whereas herbicides reduce the diversity of their food resources, thus indirectly affecting their survival and reproduction. |
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27-01-2016 |
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Assessing bee health highlights benefits of floral enrichment
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Understanding how anthropogenic landscape alteration affects populations of important insect pollinators has never been more pressing. |
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13-01-2017 |
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Atlas of pollen and plants used by bees
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Palynology is considered one of the most important tools in the study of plantbee interactions. Among the various pollinating agents that exist in nature, bees occupy a prominent place because they live in society, but also in a solitary way, and have characteristics that favor pollination. |
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26-05-2020 |
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Attractiveness of Agricultural Crops to Pollinating Bees for the Collection of Nectar and/or Pollen
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) prohibits discrimination against its customers, employees, and applicants for employment |
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04-10-2016 |
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Bee Health: Background and Issues for Congress
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Bees, both commercially managed honey bees and wild bees, play an important role in global food production. In the United States alone, the value of insect pollination to U.S. agricultural production is estimated at $16 billion annually, of which about three-fourths is attributable to honey bees. |
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20-01-2015 |
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Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flower
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Chronic exposure to multiple, interacting stressors is driving honey bee colony losses and declines of wild pollinators |
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26-02-2015 |
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BeeFriendly plant breeding
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It is well evidenced that pollinators are facing many threats worldwide and are in dire need for protection. The latest report of the IPBES on pollination, pollinators and food production has recently echoed this fact. |
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26-10-2016 |
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Bees and their role in forest livelihoods
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The role of bees in sustaining forests and forest dependent livelihoods remains poorly known and appreciated. Bees are a fantastic world resource: they are essential for sustaining our environment because they pollinate flowering plants. |
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03-10-2009 |
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Bees as Biosensors - Pollinator Syndrome
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Bees as Biosensors: Chemosensory Ability, Honey Bee Monitoring Systems, and Emergent Sensor Technologies Derived from the Pollinator Syndrome. |
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30-10-2015 |
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