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- Bee Products: A Representation of Biodiversity . . .
Bees comprise about 20,000 described species across seven recognized families In Europe, about 37–52% of bee species are included on the World Conservation Union Red List The importance of the role of bees at an ecosystem level cannot ignore the deep knowledge of ecosystem relations and services
- Population Structure and Diversity in European Honey Bees
To this end, we sampled a total of 1347 worker bees from 14 populations, covering a large range of A mellifera subspecies and diversity in Europe, and with a special focus on areas where studies had been scarce, especially towards the eastern range limit of the species We sequenced the whole-genome of pools from about 90 workers (pool-seq
- The Bees of North Carolina: An Identification Guide | NC . . .
Identifying bees on the wing is known to be tricky The Bees of North Carolina: An Identification Guide is a beginner’s resource designed to help quickly and generally identify native bees in North Carolina Developed by experts at NC State Extension, it provides an overview of some of the most common groups of bees in the state The guide will help users learn to recognize bees according to
- Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of . . .
Fruit set, the proportion of a plant’s flowers that develop into mature fruits or seeds, is a key component of crop yield (fig S1) Wild insects may increase fruit set by contributing to pollinator abundance, species number (richness), equity in relative species abundance (evenness), or some combination of these factors
- Differences Between European and African Honey Bees
African honey bees and European honey bees are the same species (Apis mellifera), but the two are classified as differ-ent sub-species European honey bees were first introduced to the Americas in the 1500s by European explorers For centuries, European honey bees have been selected by beekeepers for their robust honey production and storage
- Global decline of bumblebees is phylogenetically structured . . .
Among these, 40 species (34 7%) were classified as declining Similarly, 38 species (34 2%; 24 globally and 14 continentally assessed) out of the 111 species with known conservation status included in the Bombus phylogeny were classified as declining Hence, about one-third of global bumblebee fauna assessed for extinction risk is threatened
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