Frontiers in Bee Science

Volume 3 - 2025

Original Research

Accepted on 21 Apr 2025

Introduced honey bees have the potential to reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees in terms of a male bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction

Kit Prendergast
Mark Murphy
Peter Kevan
Zong-Xin Ren
Lynne Milne

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1508958

159 views

Review

Accepted on 17 Apr 2025

Chromosome evolution in bees

Robin Owen

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1395037

Original Research

Published on 10 Apr 2025

Infestation levels of Aphomia sociella in bumblebees increase with proximity to apiaries and result in lower reproductive output and weaker immune response

Ronalds Krams
Tatjana Grigorjeva
Jonathan Willow
Sergejs Popovs
Māris Munkevics
Giedrius Trakimas
Jorge Contreras-Garduño
André Rodrigues de Souza
Colton B. Adams
Markus J. Rantala

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1550560

1,071 views

Original Research

Published on 02 Apr 2025

Unhealthy brood odor scores predict pathogen loads of several important honey bee diseases

Samantha A. Alger
P. Alexander Burnham
M. Sydney Miller
Esmaeil Amiri
Corinne Jordan
Kaira Wagoner

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1509871

2,179 views

Editorial

Published on 25 Mar 2025

Editorial: Applied bee science and technology transfer

Nuria Morfin
Karina Antúnez
Patricia Aldea-Sánchez
M. Marta Guarna

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1565929

342 views

Editorial

Published on 13 Mar 2025

Editorial: Biology of giant honeybees

Gard W. Otis
Willard S. Robinson
Axel Brockmann
Gerald Kastberger

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1572680

422 views

Original Research

Published on 13 Mar 2025

Effect of honeybee queen size and HSP90 and HSC70 gene expression on thermal stress resistance

Alireza Derafsh
Abdolreza Salehi
Esmaeil Amiri
Mohammad Reza Bakhtiarizadeh

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1498092

489 views

Review

Published on 07 Mar 2025

Population delimitation in bumble bees - strategies and research gaps

Lilian Gornall
Jens Dauber
Wiebke Sickel

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1507903

581 views

Editorial

Published on 04 Mar 2025

Editorial: Pollinators: a network to life

Connal Eardley
Katja Hogendoorn
Christine Coppinger

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1534837

329 views

Original Research

Published on 17 Feb 2025

Climate change will alter Amazonian bumblebees’ distribution, but effects are species-specific

Patrícia Nunes-Silva
André Luis Acosta
Rafael Cabral Borges
Breno Magalhães Freitas
Ricardo Caliari Oliveira
Tereza Cristina Giannini
Vera Lucia Imperatriz-Fonseca

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2025.1510004

956 views

Volume 2 - 2024

Original Research

Published on 06 Mar 2025

Characterization of the diversity of pollinating insects and their interactions with the flora of the “Agro-forêts pour le développement de Kipushi” perimeter

Pierre Makolo Kasongo
Alain Tshibungu Nkulu
Mylor Ngoy Shutcha
David Mugisho Bugeme

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2024.1394670

1,053 views

Original Research

Published on 30 Jan 2025

Never lose sight of enemies: giant honeybees perceive troublemakers even in mass flight mode—a case study

Gerald Kastberger
Martin Ebner
Thomas Hötzl

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2024.1411720

660 views

Original Research

Published on 17 Dec 2024

Unveiling the effects of land use and intra-seasonal variation on bee and plant diversity and their ecological interactions in vegetation surrounding coffee plantations

Quebin Bosbely Casiá-Ajché
Natalia Escobedo-Kenefic
Denisse Escobar-González
Edson Cardona
Alfredo Mejía-Coroy
Javier Morales-Siná
Eunice Enríquez
Patricia Landaverde-González

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2024.1408854

1,170 views
1 citation

Original Research

Published on 12 Dec 2024

Socio-ecological surveys of Apis dorsata in the mountains of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, Western Ghats, India

Shiny Mariam Rehel
Mahadesha Basavegowda
Justinraj Thankiyan
Pratim Roy

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2024.1385640

682 views

Mini Review

Published on 04 Oct 2024

A case for microbial therapeutics to bolster colony health and performance of honey bees

Sophie M. Killam
Brendan A. Daisley
Morgan L. Kleiber
Julia F. Lacika
Graham J. Thompson

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2024.1422265

1,059 views

Original Research

Published on 16 Sep 2024

Diapause, pollen ball incidence, and overwintering energetics in the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata

Preetpal Singh
Arun Rajamohan
Sarah A. Waybright
Michael E. Dillon
Scott M. Ferrenberg
Joseph P. Rinehart
Julia H. Bowsher

Frontiers in Bee Science

doi 10.3389/frbee.2024.1454790

1,000 views