Although solitary bees represent at least 70% of bee species, most ecotoxicological studies on bees focus on social species and there are only a few species of solitary bees. One of the challenges in developing toxicological ...

The sustainable provision of pollination services in large regions of the Nearctic and Neotropics usually involves the coexistence of a rich assemblage of native bees and introduced bees in the same agroecosystem. This ...

Insect pollination is issential for hybrid seed production systems, among which, introduced and native bees are the primary pollinating agents transferring pollen from male fertile (MF) to male sterile (MS) lines. On a ...

All across the world, different countries use Ecological risk assessments (ERA) of pesticides to pollinators as a regulatory tool to understand the safety of pesticide use in agriculture. However, pesticide application is ...

The Neotropics bee fauna is very rich with 5000 recognised species, including 33 genera (391 species) of Meliponini, but it is estimated to be at least three fold greater in species richness. Deforestation, agriculture ...

The bee species Melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) is native to Brazil and, stingless. In Brazil, stingless bees are responsible for 40% to 90% of tree species pollination, depending on the considered ...

The bee species Melipona scutellaris Latreille, 1811 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) is native to Brazil and, stingless. In Brazil, stingless bees are responsible for 40% to 90% of tree species pollination, depending on the considered ...

An entomopalynological study to assess pollen use by wild bees was performed in an urban environment with riparian native forest in the Chaco region of Argentina. A combined method for sampling pollen loads and garbage ...