Apidologie

Papers
(The median citation count of Apidologie is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gene flow among populations of Xylocopa frontalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) of islands and continent: is the sea a geographical barrier?59
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor49
The time of day matters when it comes to yellowjackets’ attacks on honey bees and lavender essential oil can deter wasps from hives35
The high Wolbachia infection does not drive Tetrapedia diversipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) sex bias and population genetic structure34
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)25
Accessibility and resource quality drive flower visitation patterns among native perennial species22
Biting behavior against Varroa mites in honey bees is associated with changes in mandibles, with tracking by a new mobile application for mite damage identification19
Embryogenesis and apoptosis appears as key molecular pathways involved in Varroa destructor reproduction19
Wild and managed bee communities in canola respond to landscape context and farm management19
Monitoring of hive weight changes in various landscapes16
Molecular examination of nosemosis and foulbrood pathogens in honey bee populations from southeastern Morocco16
Glyphosate-based herbicide increases the number of foraging trips but does not affect the homing of Bombus terrestris16
Honey bee-collected pollen richness and protein content across an agricultural land-use gradient16
Global invasion risk of Apocephalus borealis, a honey bee parasitoid14
Copper-accelerated pupation in larvae of the buff-tailed bumble bee13
Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements13
Genetic diversity and population structure of Apis cerana complementary sex determiner (csd) genes in China13
Scientific note: First report of small hive beetle in South Asia and their potential invasive pathway12
Lack of evidence for chemical integration of the cuckoo-bee Stelis nasuta (Latreille, 1809) and Coelioxys aurolimbata (Förster, 1853) with their main host Megachile parietina (Geoffroy, 1785)12
Endochitinase from the Microsporidia Nosema ceranae facilitates infection in the honey bee Apis mellifera12
Current genetic diversity of managed and commercially produced Apis mellifera colonies in Argentina inferred by wing geometric morphometrics and COI-COII mtDNA locus12
Foraging behavior and the nest architecture of a high-Andean stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) revealed by X-ray computerized tomography11
Nesting biology of two species of oil-collecting bees of the genus Paratetrapedia s.l. (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) in Argentina11
Unraveling the species complex of the fire bee Oxytrigona tataira (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): an integrative approach11
Effect of bisphenol A on the ovarian expressions of estrogen-related receptor gene and protein in queen honey bee (Apis mellifera)11
Discovery of the Himalayan giant honey bee, Apis laboriosa, in Thailand: a major range extension11
The ground-nesting bee Anthophora plumipes as a model species for assessing effects of soil-mediated pesticide exposure10
Shorter, better, faster, stronger? Comparing the identification performance of full-length and mini-DNA barcodes for apid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)10
Proteomic characterisation of the summer–winter transition in Apis mellifera10
Identification of gallic acid in Trapa bispinosa as an effective inhibitor of the vegetative growth and spore germination of Paenibacillus larvae10
Sublethal exposure to imidacloprid in commercial Apis mellifera colonies in early spring: performance of honey bees and insecticide transference between in-hive products10
Long-lived winter honey bees show unexpectedly high levels of flight activity compared to short-lived summer bees10
Chronic exposure to a field-realistic concentration of Closer® SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide impacted the growth and foraging activity of honey bee colonies9
Mitochondrial genome heteroplasmy and phylogenomics of the stingless bee Tetragonula laeviceps (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini)9
Honey bees collecting pollen from the body surface of foraging bumble bees: a recurring behaviour9
Reproductive potential shapes the expression of nurse-to-forager transition genes in the workers of stingless bees (Meliponini)8
Main causes of producing honey bee colony losses in southwestern Spain: a novel machine learning-based approach8
The heat is on: impact of heat waves on critical thermal maxima in larvae and adults of solitary bee Osmia bicornis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)8
Assessing Varroa destructor acaricide resistance in Apis mellifera colonies of Virginia8
A non-destructive approach to assess the gut microbiome of honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens using fecal samples8
Influence of seasonal weather variables and habitat type on numbers of colonies of the giant honey bee in Nepal8
The post-capping period of the tropical honey bee subspecies Apis mellifera unicolor in La Réuion8
An improved method and apparatus for assessing bee foraging preferences8
Genetic diversity of Apis mellifera complementary sex determiner (csd) in four Australian breeding populations7
Higher early than late-season residue load of pesticides in honey bee bread in Slovakia7
Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies7
Why bumblebees have become model species in apidology: A brief history and perspectives7
A scientific note on the strategy of wax collection as rare behavior of Apis mellifera7
Antennal sensilla pattern distribution and odor detection in Bombus pauloensis foragers (Hymenoptera: Apidae)7
Cytogenetic characterization of Austroplebeia australis: evolutionary hints from a stingless bee outside the Neotropical region7
Pollinators’ contribution to seed yield in two self-fertile almond varieties role of bees for self-fertile almonds7
Morphological and molecular evidence for considering Xylocopa nigrocincta as the senior synonym of Xylocopa suspecta (Apidae: Xylocopini)6
Pollen columns and a wax canopy in a first nest description of Bombus (Cullumanobombus) morrisoni (Apidae)6
Effect of land-use intensity and adjacent semi-natural habitats on wild and honey bees of meadows6
Resistance to Varroa destructor is a trait mainly transmitted by the queen and not via worker learning6
Postdiapause mating in bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris): a novel strategy for conservation and laboratory breeding6
Pesticides put our food security at risk by reducing bee survival almost five times6
Bombus-plant interactions defined by bipartite network analysis in an underexplored Mediterranean island (Sicily)6
The effect of forager loss on honeybee workers temporal polyethism and social network structure6
The cuckoo bumble bee, Bombus chinensis, has a fragmented habitat, as revealed using the maximum entropy approach (Hymenoptera: Apidae)6
The role of botanical treatments used in apiculture to control arthropod pests6
Capacity of honeybees to remove heavy metals from nectar and excrete the contaminants from their bodies6
The effects of instrumental insemination on selected and unselected breeding characteristics in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)6
Effectiveness of an ethanol extract of jet black ant nests for combatting nosemosis in apiary honey bees6
Effects of queen excluders on the colony dynamics of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) under biodynamic management5
The stingless bee Trigona fulviventris prefers sweet and salty over savory nectar5
Nutritional profiling of common eastern North American pollen species with implications for bee diet and pollinator health5
First report of phoresy by silken fungus beetles on Bombus funebris (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini) in the Southern Andes of Ecuador5
Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety5
A scientific note on Bombus haemorrhoidalis: a long-tongued pocket-maker species5
Effects of imidacloprid on survival and nest development in the neo-tropical bumblebee Bombus ephippiatus5
Effects of coumaphos on locomotor activities of different honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) subspecies and ecotypes5
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado5
Macroalgal extracts as an alternative for the control of Paenibacillus larvae5
Genetic parameters, trends, and inbreeding in a honeybee breeding program for royal jelly production and behavioral traits5
Continuous hive monitoring reveals colony growth and activity differences among mite-resistant and Italian honey bee stocks5
Crushing corn pollen grains increased diet digestibility and hemolymph protein content while decreasing honey bee consumption5
The development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay to detect American foulbrood in managed honey bee populations5
Toxicity of imidacloprid for stingless bees of the genus Tetragonisca (Meliponini)5
Fatty acids profile in the honeybee: metabolic pathways, stressor interactions, and analytical approaches4
Karyotypic variation in the stingless bee Trigona spinipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) from different geographical regions of Brazil4
Colonization dynamics of the gut flora in western honey bee workers within 7-day post-emergence4
Metapodal shields: standardizing the morphometric study of Varroa destructor4
Landscape influences genetic diversity but does not limit gene flow in a Neotropical pollinator4
Lithium chloride leads to concentration dependent brood damages in honey bee hives (Apis mellifera) during control of the mite Varroa destructor4
Transcriptome analysis reveals differentially expressed genes between the ovary and testis of the honey bee Apis mellifera4
The impact of agricultural intensification on bee health and abundance4
Deconstructing and contextualizing foraging behavior in bumble bees and other central place foragers4
The reliability of honey bee density estimates from trapped drones4
The dose makes the poison: feeding of antibiotic-treated winter honey bees, Apis mellifera, with probiotics and b-vitamins4
Methoprene, a juvenile hormone analogue, modifies maturation and emergence in overwintering Osmia rufa L. adults4
Proline and β-alanine influence bumblebee nectar consumption without affecting survival4
Correction to: Higher early than late-season residue load of pesticides in honey bee bread in slovakia4
Reproductive quality in drones bred from Caucasian (A. m. caucasica) and Italian (A. m. ligustica) honey bee colonies4
The effect of major abiotic stressors on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens and potential impact on their progeny4
Color choice and preference in the tropical orchid bee Euglossa dilemma4
Spatiotemporal variation of small hive beetle infestation levels in honeybee host colonies4
Correction to: Apis laboriosa confirmed by morphometric and genetic analyses of giant honey bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae) from sites of sympatry in Arunachal Pradesh, North East India4
Nesting behavior of the red dwarf honeybee, Apis florea Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Apidae)4
Sex and caste effects on the vibrational sensitivity in honey bees (Apis mellifera)4
Effects of two chordotonal-organ-targeting insecticides on survival and locomotion of Melipona beecheii and Nannotrigona perilampoides (Apidae: Meliponini)4
Dynamics of honey bee colony death and its implications for Varroa destructor mite transmission using observation hives4
Influence of the agricultural landscape surrounding Apis mellifera colonies on the presence of pesticides in honey4
Correction to: Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements4
Body size and age of drone honeybees (Apis mellifera) affect the structure and characteristics of mating congregations via dispersal4
Parasitoid flies associated with bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in Argentina4
Short-term heat exposure at sublethal temperatures reduces sperm quality in males of a solitary bee species, Osmia cornifrons4
The invasion of the red dwarf honey bee (Apis florea) in Egypt: morphometric assessment and nesting preferences in urban environments3
Age-performance and intensity of grooming behavior toward Varroa destructor in resistant and susceptible Apis mellifera colonies3
Eggs of the bee Osmia lignaria endure weeks of prolonged cold weather3
A scientific note on the differential handling behaviour of two large carpenter bees on an inverted keel flower3
Sublethal effects of herbicides clethodim, haloxyfop-P-methyl, and their mixture on honey bee health3
Nesting biology of Tetrapedia amplitarsis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Tetrapediini)3
Honey proteome of the bumblebee Bombus terrestris: similarities, differences, and exceptionality compared to honey bee honey as signatures of eusociality evolution3
Nearly half of spring-flying male Andrena bees consume pollen, but less than female conspecifics3
The significance of Apis cerana cerana (Hymenoptera: Apidae) gnawing off the old brood cells3
Correction to: Resistance to Varroa destructor is a trait mainly transmitted by the queen and not via worker learning3
Disparate continental scale patterns in floral host breadth of Australian colletid bees (Colletidae: Hymenoptera)3
Haplotype diversity and Varroa destructor infestation patterns in commercial beekeeping operations across Southwestern Saudi Arabia3
Impact of Cannabis sativa (L.) inflorescences on the control of artificial Nosema (= Vairimorpha) ceranae infection in honey bees Apis mellifera ligustica (Spinola, 1806)3
Nesting biology of Centris aethyctera (Centridini, Apidae) in an estuarine environment3
Acute fipronil toxicity induces high mortality rate for honeybees and stingless bees, with the latter facing heightened risk3
Impact of exposure of larvae to boscalid at field concentrations on gene expression in honey bees3
Varroa destructor infestation levels in Africanized honey bee colonies in Brazil from 1977 when first detected to 20203
Octopamine affects gustatory responsiveness and may enhance learning in bumble bees3
The missing queen: a non-invasive method to identify queenless stingless bee hives3
Estuarine floodplains harbor greater diversity of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Euglossini) than mangroves in coastal Amazonia3
Scientific note: Phoretic interaction between Antherophagus (Coleoptera) and Bombus funebris (Hymenoptera), using Chuquiraga jussieui (Asteraceae) as transfer stations in the páramos3
Commercial honey bee keeping compromises wild bee conservation in Mediterranean nature reserves3
Past, present, and future of SSR molecular markers in bee studies3
A filmed copulation of Ctenoplectra (Ctenoplectrini, Apidae) bees suggests that males may chemically mark females3
A scientific note on flower search and floral handling pattern determining flower constancy in bumblebees3
Timing of drone flights and observations of other colony behaviors of Apis laboriosa in northern Vietnam3
Nutritional landscape of managed honey bee colonies in Mexico3
New highly discordant chromosome number and cytogenetic characterization in Trigona (Apidae, Meliponini)3
Edge effects on the cavity-nesting hymenopteran communities and their natural enemies within fragmented landscapes3
Spatio-temporal patterns of Varroa destructor prevalence in Germany inferred from 10-year survey data explain geographic and annual variance in winter colony loss rates of honeybees3
Oxalic acid in cellulose strips: towards an efficient and sustainable approach for the control of Varroa destructor3
Evidence of sociality in European small Carpenter bees (Ceratina)3
Oxidative stress and apoptosis in Asian honey bees (A. cerana) exposed to multiple pesticides in intensive agricultural landscape2
The severe invasion of Sosnowsky’s hogweed Heracleum sosnowskyi favours European honeybees Apis mellifera over other pollinators2
Correction to: Toxicity of imidacloprid for stingless bees of the genus Tetragonisca (Meliponini)2
The role of native and exotic bees in Cucurbita maxima var. zapallito pollination: the effects of pollination intensity and visits on commercial fruits2
Long-term Vespa velutina nigrithorax pressure: Honey bee risk survival to alien invasion2
Likelihood of same diapause fate for nest-adjacent siblings of alfalfa leafcutting bees (Megachile rotundata, Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)2
Honey bees in Chile: a national survey of ancestry and admixture2
Short-term storage at 16ºC of semen from Africanized honeybee drones using different extenders2
Insect sociality plays a major role in a highly complex flower-visiting network in the neotropical savanna2
Seasonal variations of the five main honey bee viruses in a three-year longitudinal survey2
Assessing potential viral transmission between honeybees and hive-infesting ants using novel per-hive co-detection indices2
Comparative cytogenetic analysis reveals chromosomal variability in five stingless bees of the genus Trigona (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini)2
Current status of the small hive beetle Aethina tumida in Latin America2
A scientific note on pollinators’ ability to overcome exploitation barriers: deep hummingbird-evolved corollas and small-sized bees2
Fuel provisioning for pollen collection by solitary bee, Andrena taraxaci orienticola2
One for the road: bumble bees consume pollen at flowers2
First evidence of large hive beetle (Oplostomus fuligineus) invasion in the Arabian region: a survey-based study of spread and future management2
Side effects of imidacloprid, ethion, and hexaflumuron on adult and larvae of honey bee Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera, Apidae)2
Chronic in-hive exposure to a field-relevant concentration of Closer™ SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide altered immunological and physiological markers of honey bee foragers (Apis mellifera)2
Deformed wing virus–induced changes in honey bee reception and preference for pollen scents2
A scientific note on neotropical bumblebees Bombus (Thoracobombus) excellens2
The botanical origin of cerumen and propolis of Indian stingless bees (Tetragonula iridipennis Smith): pollen spectrum does not accurately indicate latex and resin sources2
Is acetamiprid really not that harmful to bumblebees (Apidae: Bombus spp.)?1
Comparison of two methods for decoding honeybee waggle dances1
Thermal preferences of honey bee drones at different ages, depending on the rearing temperature1
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) cognition under exposure to field-relevant doses of Deltamethrin and Imidacloprid: isolated and combined effects1
Inter- and intra-population B chromosome variability in Partamona helleri (Apidae: Meliponini)1
Towards integrated pollination management in Spanish almond orchards1
Asymmetry in the ovarioles, mandibular glands and hypopharyngeal glands of honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers developing in queenright or queenless colonies1
Small hive beetle, Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae): chemical profile of the cuticle and possible chemical mimicry in a honeybee (Apis mellifera) pest1
Effects of live yeasts and their metabolic products on bumble bee microcolony development1
A scientific note on resurgence of the small hive beetle (Aethina tumida Murray) (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) as a pest for Apis mellifera jamenitica in Sudan1
The influence of sublethal neonicotinoid doses on individual Apis mellifera scutellata thermotolerance1
Residual effect of imidacloprid and beta-cyfluthrin on Africanized Apis mellifera L. (Hymenoptera: Apidae) workers1
Rapid transformation of traditional beekeeping and colony marketing erode genetic differentiation in Apis mellifera simensis, Ethiopia1
Potential of whey protein as a nutritional intervention in alleviating manganese and paraquat-mediated oxidative stress in Apis mellifera meda1
Distribution widening of a ground-nesting social bee across Europe favored by climate change and urban setting1
Trophic strategies of Epanthidium tigrinum (Schrottky, 1905) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), a multivoltine Neotropical bee species1
Differential gene expression responsible for caste determination at both larval and adult stages of Bombus terrestris1
The effects of anthropogenic toxins on honey bee learning: Research trends and significance1
Trace element levels in Italian honeybees and wild plants: which factors matter?1
Overview of the testing and assessment of effects of microbial pesticides on bees: strengths, challenges and perspectives1
How long can Varroa destructor survive on its host Apis mellifera?1
Tangled in natural and synthetic microfibers: prevalence, grooming, and spread across honeybees1
Living in harmony with nature: the key to resilience of honeybees (Apis mellifera) in Africa1
Comparative prevalence of Nosema ceranae infection between wild and managed honey bee(Apis mellifera) colonies in South Texas1
Patterns of nest-site selection by Colletes thoracicus within a forested watershed1
Behaviour of honeybees integrated into bumblebee nests and the responses of their hosts1
When size matters: effectiveness of three endemic African stingless bees as watermelon pollinators1
Phylogenetic structure and ecological niche modeling of the red dwarf honey bee across its native range1
Locomotion and searching behaviour in the honey bee larva depend on nursing interaction1
Dietary dopamine supplementation has no effect on ovary activity in queen-less or queen-right honeybee (Apis mellifera) workers1
Correction to: Nearly half of spring-flying male Andrena bees consume pollen, but less than female conspecifics1
De novo genome assembly and annotations of Bombus lapidarius and Bombus niveatus provide insights into the environmental adaptability1
Development, behaviour, productivity, and health status of the native honey bee Apis mellifera ruttneri vs. the introduced A. m. ligustica in Malta1
First evaluation of genetic diversity among honeybee populations in Kazakhstan1
Inter-colony fights in Tetragonula stingless bees result in temporary mixed-species worker cohorts1
New insights into the unusual nesting biology of the bee Trichocolletes orientalis (Hymenoptera: Colletidae, Neopasiphaeinae), particularly its larval ‘oil bath’1
Patterns of virus coincidence between honey bees and bumble bees in the Pacific Northwest, USA1
mt-COI heteroplasmy characterization of Tetragonisca angustula (Hymenoptera: Apidae)1
Leafcutter bee preference of plant saplings in plant nurseries: context for future research and conservation1
Scientific note: Polygyny and hierarchy among queens in the stingless bee Melipona quinquefasciata1
A scientific note on ‘Rapid brood decapping’—a method for assessment of honey bee (Apis mellifera) brood infestation with Tropilaelaps mercedesae1
Correction to: Disparate continental scale patterns in floral host breadth of Australian colletid bees (Colletidae: Hymenoptera)1
Restoration of bee communities (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) in landscape scale: a review1
Coffee cover surrounding forest patches negatively affect Euglossini bee communities1
A scientific note on the transmission of chalkbrood via field collected pollen1
Impact of different constant temperatures on the survival of honey bee, Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae)1
Varroa resistance in Apis cerana: a review1
Estimating bee abundance: can mark-recapture methods validate common sampling protocols?1
A thirty-two-year (1984–2015) longitudinal analysis of honey bee disease and pathogen prevalence in the USA1
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