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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Gene flow among populations of Xylocopa frontalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) of islands and continent: is the sea a geographical barrier?	49
Males from multiple colonies improve queen mating success in the bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	44
Managed honeybee hives and the diversity of wild bees in a dryland nature reserve	38
The high Wolbachia infection does not drive Tetrapedia diversipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) sex bias and population genetic structure	28
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor	27
The time of day matters when it comes to yellowjackets’ attacks on honey bees and lavender essential oil can deter wasps from hives	21
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	21
Accessibility and resource quality drive flower visitation patterns among native perennial species	18
Wild and managed bee communities in canola respond to landscape context and farm management	17
Glyphosate-based herbicide increases the number of foraging trips but does not affect the homing of Bombus terrestris	16
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	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
Honey bee-collected pollen richness and protein content across an agricultural land-use gradient	14
Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	14
Monitoring of hive weight changes in various landscapes	14
Global invasion risk of Apocephalus borealis, a honey bee parasitoid	12
Molecular examination of nosemosis and foulbrood pathogens in honey bee populations from southeastern Morocco	12
Scientific note: First report of small hive beetle in South Asia and their potential invasive pathway	11
Immune-related gene expression in honey bee larva (Apis mellifera) exposed to plant extracts from Humulus lupulus with antimicrobial activity against Paenibacillus larvae	11
Unraveling the species complex of the fire bee Oxytrigona tataira (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): an integrative approach	10
Endochitinase from the Microsporidia Nosema ceranae facilitates infection in the honey bee Apis mellifera	10
Shorter, better, faster, stronger? Comparing the identification performance of full-length and mini-DNA barcodes for apid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	10
Genetic diversity and population structure of Apis cerana complementary sex determiner (csd) genes in China	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

Identification of gallic acid in Trapa bispinosa as an effective inhibitor of the vegetative growth and spore germination of Paenibacillus larvae	10
Effect of bisphenol A on the ovarian expressions of estrogen-related receptor gene and protein in queen honey bee (Apis mellifera)	10
Nutrigenetic comparison of two Varroa-resistant honey bee stocks fed pollen and spirulina microalgae	10
Discovery of the Himalayan giant honey bee, Apis laboriosa, in Thailand: a major range extension	9
Sublethal exposure to imidacloprid in commercial Apis mellifera colonies in early spring: performance of honey bees and insecticide transference between in-hive products	9
Nesting biology of two species of oil-collecting bees of the genus Paratetrapedia s.l. (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) in Argentina	9
Foraging behavior and the nest architecture of a high-Andean stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) revealed by X-ray computerized tomography	9
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)	9
Main causes of producing honey bee colony losses in southwestern Spain: a novel machine learning-based approach	8
Influence of seasonal weather variables and habitat type on numbers of colonies of the giant honey bee in Nepal	8
An improved method and apparatus for assessing bee foraging preferences	8
Honey bees collecting pollen from the body surface of foraging bumble bees: a recurring behaviour	8
Mitochondrial genome heteroplasmy and phylogenomics of the stingless bee Tetragonula laeviceps (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini)	8
Reproductive potential shapes the expression of nurse-to-forager transition genes in the workers of stingless bees (Meliponini)	8
The heat is on: impact of heat waves on critical thermal maxima in larvae and adults of solitary bee Osmia bicornis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)	8
Chronic exposure to a field-realistic concentration of Closer® SC (24% sulfoxaflor) insecticide impacted the growth and foraging activity of honey bee colonies	7
Assessing Varroa destructor acaricide resistance in Apis mellifera colonies of Virginia	7
Cytogenetic characterization of Austroplebeia australis: evolutionary hints from a stingless bee outside the Neotropical region	7
Genetic diversity of Apis mellifera complementary sex determiner (csd) in four Australian breeding populations	7
Long-lived winter honey bees show unexpectedly high levels of flight activity compared to short-lived summer bees	7
Higher early than late-season residue load of pesticides in honey bee bread in Slovakia	7
Mite diversity is determined by the stingless bee host species	7
The post-capping period of the tropical honey bee subspecies Apis mellifera unicolor in La Réuion	7
The ground-nesting bee Anthophora plumipes as a model species for assessing effects of soil-mediated pesticide exposure	7
Proteomic characterisation of the summer–winter transition in Apis mellifera	7
Why bumblebees have become model species in apidology: A brief history and perspectives	7
Pollinators’ contribution to seed yield in two self-fertile almond varieties role of bees for self-fertile almonds	6
Pollen columns and a wax canopy in a first nest description of Bombus (Cullumanobombus) morrisoni (Apidae)	6
Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies	6
A scientific note on the strategy of wax collection as rare behavior of Apis mellifera	6
Antennal sensilla pattern distribution and odor detection in Bombus pauloensis foragers (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	6
Climate-associated shifts in color and body size for a tropical bee pollinator	6
Capacity of honeybees to remove heavy metals from nectar and excrete the contaminants from their bodies	6
Changes in the wing-beat frequency of bees and wasps depending on environmental conditions: a study with optical sensors	6
Morphological and molecular evidence for considering Xylocopa nigrocincta as the senior synonym of Xylocopa suspecta (Apidae: Xylocopini)	6
The role of botanical treatments used in apiculture to control arthropod pests	6
Pesticides put our food security at risk by reducing bee survival almost five times	6
The development of a loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay to detect American foulbrood in managed honey bee populations	5
Bombus-plant interactions defined by bipartite network analysis in an underexplored Mediterranean island (Sicily)	5
Effects of coumaphos on locomotor activities of different honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) subspecies and ecotypes	5
A scientific note defining allelic nomenclature standards for the highly diverse complementary sex-determiner (csd) locus in honey bees	5
Possibility to change the body size in worker bees by a combination of small-cell and standard-cell combs in the same nest	5
Effect of land-use intensity and adjacent semi-natural habitats on wild and honey bees of meadows	5
Resistance to Varroa destructor is a trait mainly transmitted by the queen and not via worker learning	5
Vitellogenin in the honey bee midgut	5
The cuckoo bumble bee, Bombus chinensis, has a fragmented habitat, as revealed using the maximum entropy approach (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	5
First report of phoresy by silken fungus beetles on Bombus funebris (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini) in the Southern Andes of Ecuador	5
Effectiveness of an ethanol extract of jet black ant nests for combatting nosemosis in apiary honey bees	5
Toxicity of imidacloprid for stingless bees of the genus Tetragonisca (Meliponini)	5
Crushing corn pollen grains increased diet digestibility and hemolymph protein content while decreasing honey bee consumption	5

Postdiapause mating in bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris): a novel strategy for conservation and laboratory breeding	5
The effects of instrumental insemination on selected and unselected breeding characteristics in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)	5
A qPCR assay for sensitive and rapid detection of African A-lineage honey bees (Apis mellifera)	5
Effects of queen excluders on the colony dynamics of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) under biodynamic management	4
The stingless bee Trigona fulviventris prefers sweet and salty over savory nectar	4
Sex and caste effects on the vibrational sensitivity in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	4
The reliability of honey bee density estimates from trapped drones	4
The effect of forager loss on honeybee workers temporal polyethism and social network structure	4
Nutritional profiling of common eastern North American pollen species with implications for bee diet and pollinator health	4
Proline and β-alanine influence bumblebee nectar consumption without affecting survival	4
Correction to: Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	4
Reproductive quality in drones bred from Caucasian (A. m. caucasica) and Italian (A. m. ligustica) honey bee colonies	4
Genetic parameters, trends, and inbreeding in a honeybee breeding program for royal jelly production and behavioral traits	4
Lithium chloride leads to concentration dependent brood damages in honey bee hives (Apis mellifera) during control of the mite Varroa destructor	4
Macroalgal extracts as an alternative for the control of Paenibacillus larvae	4
Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety	4
Effects of imidacloprid on survival and nest development in the neo-tropical bumblebee Bombus ephippiatus	4
Dynamics of honey bee colony death and its implications for Varroa destructor mite transmission using observation hives	4
Karyotypic variation in the stingless bee Trigona spinipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) from different geographical regions of Brazil	4
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	4
A fully automatic classification of bee species from wing images	4