OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Apidologie is 4. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor	52
The time of day matters when it comes to yellowjackets’ attacks on honey bees and lavender essential oil can deter wasps from hives	52
Males from multiple colonies improve queen mating success in the bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	45
The high Wolbachia infection does not drive Tetrapedia diversipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) sex bias and population genetic structure	31
Gene flow among populations of Xylocopa frontalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) of islands and continent: is the sea a geographical barrier?	31
Accessibility and resource quality drive flower visitation patterns among native perennial species	23
Managed honeybee hives and the diversity of wild bees in a dryland nature reserve	21
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	17
Copper-accelerated pupation in larvae of the buff-tailed bumble bee	16
Embryogenesis and apoptosis appears as key molecular pathways involved in Varroa destructor reproduction	16
Wild and managed bee communities in canola respond to landscape context and farm management	16
Honey bee-collected pollen richness and protein content across an agricultural land-use gradient	15
Biting behavior against Varroa mites in honey bees is associated with changes in mandibles, with tracking by a new mobile application for mite damage identification	15
Global invasion risk of Apocephalus borealis, a honey bee parasitoid	13
Glyphosate-based herbicide increases the number of foraging trips but does not affect the homing of Bombus terrestris	12
Genetic diversity and population structure of Apis cerana complementary sex determiner (csd) genes in China	12
Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	12
Monitoring of hive weight changes in various landscapes	12
Scientific note: First report of small hive beetle in South Asia and their potential invasive pathway	12
Molecular examination of nosemosis and foulbrood pathogens in honey bee populations from southeastern Morocco	12
Effect of bisphenol A on the ovarian expressions of estrogen-related receptor gene and protein in queen honey bee (Apis mellifera)	12
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)	11
Unraveling the species complex of the fire bee Oxytrigona tataira (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): an integrative approach	11
Identification of gallic acid in Trapa bispinosa as an effective inhibitor of the vegetative growth and spore germination of Paenibacillus larvae	11
Endochitinase from the Microsporidia Nosema ceranae facilitates infection in the honey bee Apis mellifera	11

Nesting biology of two species of oil-collecting bees of the genus Paratetrapedia s.l. (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) in Argentina	10
Current genetic diversity of managed and commercially produced Apis mellifera colonies in Argentina inferred by wing geometric morphometrics and COI-COII mtDNA locus	10
Foraging behavior and the nest architecture of a high-Andean stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) revealed by X-ray computerized tomography	10
Sublethal exposure to imidacloprid in commercial Apis mellifera colonies in early spring: performance of honey bees and insecticide transference between in-hive products	10
Shorter, better, faster, stronger? Comparing the identification performance of full-length and mini-DNA barcodes for apid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	10
Discovery of the Himalayan giant honey bee, Apis laboriosa, in Thailand: a major range extension	10
Honey bees collecting pollen from the body surface of foraging bumble bees: a recurring behaviour	9
Assessing Varroa destructor acaricide resistance in Apis mellifera colonies of Virginia	9
Proteomic characterisation of the summer–winter transition in Apis mellifera	9
An improved method and apparatus for assessing bee foraging preferences	9
Influence of seasonal weather variables and habitat type on numbers of colonies of the giant honey bee in Nepal	9
Long-lived winter honey bees show unexpectedly high levels of flight activity compared to short-lived summer bees	9
The heat is on: impact of heat waves on critical thermal maxima in larvae and adults of solitary bee Osmia bicornis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)	9
Mitochondrial genome heteroplasmy and phylogenomics of the stingless bee Tetragonula laeviceps (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini)	8
A scientific note on the strategy of wax collection as rare behavior of Apis mellifera	8
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 approach	8
The post-capping period of the tropical honey bee subspecies Apis mellifera unicolor in La Réuion	8
Chronic exposure to a field-realistic concentration of Closer® SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide impacted the growth and foraging activity of honey bee colonies	8
Cytogenetic characterization of Austroplebeia australis: evolutionary hints from a stingless bee outside the Neotropical region	8
The ground-nesting bee Anthophora plumipes as a model species for assessing effects of soil-mediated pesticide exposure	8
Postdiapause mating in bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris): a novel strategy for conservation and laboratory breeding	7
Why bumblebees have become model species in apidology: A brief history and perspectives	7
Pollen columns and a wax canopy in a first nest description of Bombus (Cullumanobombus) morrisoni (Apidae)	7
Pollinators’ contribution to seed yield in two self-fertile almond varieties role of bees for self-fertile almonds	7
Genetic diversity of Apis mellifera complementary sex determiner (csd) in four Australian breeding populations	7
The cuckoo bumble bee, Bombus chinensis, has a fragmented habitat, as revealed using the maximum entropy approach (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	7
Higher early than late-season residue load of pesticides in honey bee bread in Slovakia	7
Pesticides put our food security at risk by reducing bee survival almost five times	6
Antennal sensilla pattern distribution and odor detection in Bombus pauloensis foragers (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	6
Effect of land-use intensity and adjacent semi-natural habitats on wild and honey bees of meadows	6
Possibility to change the body size in worker bees by a combination of small-cell and standard-cell combs in the same nest	6
Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies	6
The role of botanical treatments used in apiculture to control arthropod pests	6
Toxicity of imidacloprid for stingless bees of the genus Tetragonisca (Meliponini)	6
Capacity of honeybees to remove heavy metals from nectar and excrete the contaminants from their bodies	6
Morphological and molecular evidence for considering Xylocopa nigrocincta as the senior synonym of Xylocopa suspecta (Apidae: Xylocopini)	6
Effectiveness of an ethanol extract of jet black ant nests for combatting nosemosis in apiary honey bees	6
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	5
Bombus-plant interactions defined by bipartite network analysis in an underexplored Mediterranean island (Sicily)	5
The development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay to detect American foulbrood in managed honey bee populations	5
Nutritional profiling of common eastern North American pollen species with implications for bee diet and pollinator health	5
Crushing corn pollen grains increased diet digestibility and hemolymph protein content while decreasing honey bee consumption	5
Resistance to Varroa destructor is a trait mainly transmitted by the queen and not via worker learning	5
Macroalgal extracts as an alternative for the control of Paenibacillus larvae	5
The effect of forager loss on honeybee workers temporal polyethism and social network structure	5
Effects of coumaphos on locomotor activities of different honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) subspecies and ecotypes	5
First report of phoresy by silken fungus beetles on Bombus funebris (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini) in the Southern Andes of Ecuador	5
The effects of instrumental insemination on selected and unselected breeding characteristics in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)	5
Landscape influences genetic diversity but does not limit gene flow in a Neotropical pollinator	4

Effects of imidacloprid on survival and nest development in the neo-tropical bumblebee Bombus ephippiatus	4
Effects of queen excluders on the colony dynamics of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) under biodynamic management	4
Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety	4
Dynamics of honey bee colony death and its implications for Varroa destructor mite transmission using observation hives	4
Nesting behavior of the red dwarf honeybee, Apis florea Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	4
The effect of major abiotic stressors on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens and potential impact on their progeny	4
Sex and caste effects on the vibrational sensitivity in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	4
Continuous hive monitoring reveals colony growth and activity differences among mite-resistant and Italian honey bee stocks	4
The stingless bee Trigona fulviventris prefers sweet and salty over savory nectar	4
Correction to: Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	4
The dose makes the poison: feeding of antibiotic-treated winter honey bees, Apis mellifera, with probiotics and b-vitamins	4
Parasitoid flies associated with bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in Argentina	4
Reproductive quality in drones bred from Caucasian (A. m. caucasica) and Italian (A. m. ligustica) honey bee colonies	4
Karyotypic variation in the stingless bee Trigona spinipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) from different geographical regions of Brazil	4
A fully automatic classification of bee species from wing images	4
Proline and β-alanine influence bumblebee nectar consumption without affecting survival	4
Lithium chloride leads to concentration dependent brood damages in honey bee hives (Apis mellifera) during control of the mite Varroa destructor	4
Genetic parameters, trends, and inbreeding in a honeybee breeding program for royal jelly production and behavioral traits	4
Metapodal shields: standardizing the morphometric study of Varroa destructor	4
Short-term heat exposure at sublethal temperatures reduces sperm quality in males of a solitary bee species, Osmia cornifrons	4
The reliability of honey bee density estimates from trapped drones	4