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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
The time of day matters when it comes to yellowjackets’ attacks on honey bees and lavender essential oil can deter wasps from hives	63
The high Wolbachia infection does not drive Tetrapedia diversipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae) sex bias and population genetic structure	35
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor	27
Orally administered lactic-acid bacteria provide protection against cypermethrin in the honey bee, Apis mellifera, and the stingless bee, Scaptotrigona mexicana	25
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	19
Accessibility and resource quality drive flower visitation patterns among native perennial species	19
Gene flow among populations of Xylocopa frontalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) of islands and continent: is the sea a geographical barrier?	19
Wild and managed bee communities in canola respond to landscape context and farm management	18
Embryogenesis and apoptosis appears as key molecular pathways involved in Varroa destructor reproduction	16
Global invasion risk of Apocephalus borealis, a honey bee parasitoid	16
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	13
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	13
Glyphosate-based herbicide increases the number of foraging trips but does not affect the homing of Bombus terrestris	13
Copper-accelerated pupation in larvae of the buff-tailed bumble bee	13
Monitoring of hive weight changes in various landscapes	12
Endochitinase from the Microsporidia Nosema ceranae facilitates infection in the honey bee Apis mellifera	12
Molecular examination of nosemosis and foulbrood pathogens in honey bee populations from southeastern Morocco	12
Genetic diversity and population structure of Apis cerana complementary sex determiner (csd) genes in China	12
Foraging behavior and the nest architecture of a high-Andean stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) revealed by X-ray computerized tomography	11
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
Discovery of the Himalayan giant honey bee, Apis laboriosa, in Thailand: a major range extension	10
Scientific note: First report of small hive beetle in South Asia and their potential invasive pathway	10
Long-lived winter honey bees show unexpectedly high levels of flight activity compared to short-lived summer bees	10

Effect of bisphenol A on the ovarian expressions of estrogen-related receptor gene and protein in queen 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
Current genetic diversity of managed and commercially produced Apis mellifera colonies in Argentina inferred by wing geometric morphometrics and COI-COII mtDNA locus	10
Nesting biology of two species of oil-collecting bees of the genus Paratetrapedia s.l. (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) in Argentina	10
Identification of gallic acid in Trapa bispinosa as an effective inhibitor of the vegetative growth and spore germination of Paenibacillus larvae	10
Proteomic characterisation of the summer–winter transition in Apis mellifera	9
Honey bees collecting pollen from the body surface of foraging bumble bees: a recurring behaviour	9
Influence of seasonal weather variables and habitat type on numbers of colonies of the giant honey bee in Nepal	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
The ground-nesting bee Anthophora plumipes as a model species for assessing effects of soil-mediated pesticide exposure	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	8
An improved method and apparatus for assessing bee foraging preferences	8
Mitochondrial genome heteroplasmy and phylogenomics of the stingless bee Tetragonula laeviceps (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini)	7
Bacterial microbiota associated with the reproductive tissue of stingless bees	7
Genetic diversity of Apis mellifera complementary sex determiner (csd) in four Australian breeding populations	7
Main causes of producing honey bee colony losses in southwestern Spain: a novel machine learning-based approach	7
Heteroplasmy, inverted repeats, and genetic differentiation of the stingless bee Heterotrigona itama (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini) mitochondrial genome	7
A scientific note on the strategy of wax collection as rare behavior of Apis mellifera	7
A non-destructive approach to assess the gut microbiome of honey bee (Apis mellifera) queens using fecal samples	7
The post-capping period of the tropical honey bee subspecies Apis mellifera unicolor in La Réuion	7
Cytogenetic characterization of Austroplebeia australis: evolutionary hints from a stingless bee outside the Neotropical region	7
Morphological and molecular evidence for considering Xylocopa nigrocincta as the senior synonym of Xylocopa suspecta (Apidae: Xylocopini)	6
Why bumblebees have become model species in apidology: A brief history and perspectives	6
The cuckoo bumble bee, Bombus chinensis, has a fragmented habitat, as revealed using the maximum entropy approach (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	6
Pollinators’ contribution to seed yield in two self-fertile almond varieties role of bees for self-fertile almonds	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
Pesticides put our food security at risk by reducing bee survival almost five times	6
Pollen columns and a wax canopy in a first nest description of Bombus (Cullumanobombus) morrisoni (Apidae)	6
Higher early than late-season residue load of pesticides in honey bee bread in Slovakia	6
Antennal sensilla pattern distribution and odor detection in Bombus pauloensis foragers (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	6
Postdiapause mating in bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris): a novel strategy for conservation and laboratory breeding	6
The effect of forager loss on honeybee workers temporal polyethism and social network structure	5
Bombus-plant interactions defined by bipartite network analysis in an underexplored Mediterranean island (Sicily)	5
Crushing corn pollen grains increased diet digestibility and hemolymph protein content while decreasing honey bee consumption	5
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	5
Macroalgal extracts as an alternative for the control of Paenibacillus larvae	5
Genetic parameters, trends, and inbreeding in a honeybee breeding program for royal jelly production and behavioral traits	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
The effects of instrumental insemination on selected and unselected breeding characteristics in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)	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
Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety	5
Continuous hive monitoring reveals colony growth and activity differences among mite-resistant and Italian honey bee stocks	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
Toxicity of imidacloprid for stingless bees of the genus Tetragonisca (Meliponini)	5

Effects of coumaphos on locomotor activities of different honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) subspecies and ecotypes	5
The stingless bee Trigona fulviventris prefers sweet and salty over savory nectar	5
Effects of imidacloprid on survival and nest development in the neo-tropical bumblebee Bombus ephippiatus	5
Influence of the agricultural landscape surrounding Apis mellifera colonies on the presence of pesticides in honey	4
The dose makes the poison: feeding of antibiotic-treated winter honey bees, Apis mellifera, with probiotics and b-vitamins	4
Sex and caste effects on the vibrational sensitivity in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	4
A scientific note on Bombus haemorrhoidalis: a long-tongued pocket-maker species	4
Lithium chloride leads to concentration dependent brood damages in honey bee hives (Apis mellifera) during control of the mite Varroa destructor	4
Reproductive quality in drones bred from Caucasian (A. m. caucasica) and Italian (A. m. ligustica) honey bee colonies	4
Effects of two chordotonal-organ-targeting insecticides on survival and locomotion of Melipona beecheii and Nannotrigona perilampoides (Apidae: Meliponini)	4
Landscape influences genetic diversity but does not limit gene flow in a Neotropical pollinator	4
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 India	4
Nesting behavior of the red dwarf honeybee, Apis florea Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	4
Spatiotemporal variation of small hive beetle infestation levels in honeybee host colonies	4
Fatty acids profile in the honeybee: metabolic pathways, stressor interactions, and analytical approaches	4
Color choice and preference in the tropical orchid bee Euglossa dilemma	4
Correction to: Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	4
The condition of the bee colony (Apis mellifera) after exposure to pesticide and their mixtures	4
Correction to: Higher early than late-season residue load of pesticides in honey bee bread in slovakia	4
Short-term heat exposure at sublethal temperatures reduces sperm quality in males of a solitary bee species, Osmia cornifrons	4
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 honeybees	4
Body size and age of drone honeybees (Apis mellifera) affect the structure and characteristics of mating congregations via dispersal	4
Transcriptome analysis reveals differentially expressed genes between the ovary and testis of the honey bee Apis mellifera	4
The effect of major abiotic stressors on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens and potential impact on their progeny	4
Dynamics of honey bee colony death and its implications for Varroa destructor mite transmission using observation hives	4
The reliability of honey bee density estimates from trapped drones	4
Metapodal shields: standardizing the morphometric study of Varroa destructor	4
Proline and β-alanine influence bumblebee nectar consumption without affecting survival	4
Effects of queen excluders on the colony dynamics of honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) under biodynamic management	4
Methoprene, a juvenile hormone analogue, modifies maturation and emergence in overwintering Osmia rufa L. adults	4
The impact of agricultural intensification on bee health and abundance	4
The missing queen: a non-invasive method to identify queenless stingless bee hives	4
Parasitoid flies associated with bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in Argentina	4