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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Immediate and long-term effects of induced brood interruptions on the reproductive success of Varroa destructor	55
The time of day matters when it comes to yellowjackets’ attacks on honey bees and lavender essential oil can deter wasps from hives	54
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	33
Managed honeybee hives and the diversity of wild bees in a dryland nature reserve	32
Gene flow among populations of Xylocopa frontalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini) of islands and continent: is the sea a geographical barrier?	24
Nuclear translocation of vitellogenin in the honey bee (Apis mellifera)	21
Wild and managed bee communities in canola respond to landscape context and farm management	18
Accessibility and resource quality drive flower visitation patterns among native perennial species	18
Monitoring of hive weight changes in various landscapes	16
Embryogenesis and apoptosis appears as key molecular pathways involved in Varroa destructor reproduction	16
Copper-accelerated pupation in larvae of the buff-tailed bumble bee	16
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	13
Global invasion risk of Apocephalus borealis, a honey bee parasitoid	12
Genetic diversity and population structure of Apis cerana complementary sex determiner (csd) genes in China	12
Glyphosate-based herbicide increases the number of foraging trips but does not affect the homing of Bombus terrestris	12
Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	12
Effect of bisphenol A on the ovarian expressions of estrogen-related receptor gene and protein in queen honey bee (Apis mellifera)	12
Molecular examination of nosemosis and foulbrood pathogens in honey bee populations from southeastern Morocco	12
Unraveling the species complex of the fire bee Oxytrigona tataira (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Meliponini): an integrative approach	12
Scientific note: First report of small hive beetle in South Asia and their potential invasive pathway	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
Current genetic diversity of managed and commercially produced Apis mellifera colonies in Argentina inferred by wing geometric morphometrics and COI-COII mtDNA locus	11
Foraging behavior and the nest architecture of a high-Andean stingless bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) revealed by X-ray computerized tomography	11

Shorter, better, faster, stronger? Comparing the identification performance of full-length and mini-DNA barcodes for apid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	11
Nesting biology of two species of oil-collecting bees of the genus Paratetrapedia s.l. (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) in Argentina	11
Endochitinase from the Microsporidia Nosema ceranae facilitates infection in the honey bee Apis mellifera	11
Discovery of the Himalayan giant honey bee, Apis laboriosa, in Thailand: a major range extension	11
Sublethal exposure to imidacloprid in commercial Apis mellifera colonies in early spring: performance of honey bees and insecticide transference between in-hive products	10
The heat is on: impact of heat waves on critical thermal maxima in larvae and adults of solitary bee Osmia bicornis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)	10
Identification of gallic acid in Trapa bispinosa as an effective inhibitor of the vegetative growth and spore germination of Paenibacillus larvae	10
The ground-nesting bee Anthophora plumipes as a model species for assessing effects of soil-mediated pesticide exposure	9
Assessing Varroa destructor acaricide resistance in Apis mellifera colonies of Virginia	9
Influence of seasonal weather variables and habitat type on numbers of colonies of the giant honey bee in Nepal	9
An improved method and apparatus for assessing bee foraging preferences	9
Reproductive potential shapes the expression of nurse-to-forager transition genes in the workers of stingless bees (Meliponini)	9
Long-lived winter honey bees show unexpectedly high levels of flight activity compared to short-lived summer bees	9
Main causes of producing honey bee colony losses in southwestern Spain: a novel machine learning-based approach	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
Higher early than late-season residue load of pesticides in honey bee bread in Slovakia	8
Proteomic characterisation of the summer–winter transition in Apis mellifera	8
Honey bees collecting pollen from the body surface of foraging bumble bees: a recurring behaviour	8
A scientific note on the strategy of wax collection as rare behavior of Apis mellifera	8
Cytogenetic characterization of Austroplebeia australis: evolutionary hints from a stingless bee outside the Neotropical region	8
Mitochondrial genome heteroplasmy and phylogenomics of the stingless bee Tetragonula laeviceps (Apidae, Apinae, Meliponini)	8
The post-capping period of the tropical honey bee subspecies Apis mellifera unicolor in La Réuion	8
Why bumblebees have become model species in apidology: A brief history and perspectives	8
Morphological and molecular evidence for considering Xylocopa nigrocincta as the senior synonym of Xylocopa suspecta (Apidae: Xylocopini)	7
Pesticides put our food security at risk by reducing bee survival almost five times	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
Pollen columns and a wax canopy in a first nest description of Bombus (Cullumanobombus) morrisoni (Apidae)	7
Postdiapause mating in bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris): a novel strategy for conservation and laboratory breeding	7
Pollinators’ contribution to seed yield in two self-fertile almond varieties role of bees for self-fertile almonds	7
The role of botanical treatments used in apiculture to control arthropod pests	6
Effectiveness of an ethanol extract of jet black ant nests for combatting nosemosis in apiary honey bees	6
Toxicity of imidacloprid for stingless bees of the genus Tetragonisca (Meliponini)	6
Image recognition using convolutional neural networks for classification of honey bee subspecies	6
Antennal sensilla pattern distribution and odor detection in Bombus pauloensis foragers (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	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
Capacity of honeybees to remove heavy metals from nectar and excrete the contaminants from their bodies	6
Effect of land-use intensity and adjacent semi-natural habitats on wild and honey bees of meadows	6
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
Effects of coumaphos on locomotor activities of different honeybee (Apis mellifera L.) subspecies and ecotypes	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
First report of phoresy by silken fungus beetles on Bombus funebris (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombini) in the Southern Andes of Ecuador	5
Resistance to Varroa destructor is a trait mainly transmitted by the queen and not via worker learning	5
Effects of imidacloprid on survival and nest development in the neo-tropical bumblebee Bombus ephippiatus	5
Natural habitat cover and fragmentation per se influence orchid-bee species richness in agricultural landscapes in the Brazilian Cerrado	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
The effects of instrumental insemination on selected and unselected breeding characteristics in honeybee (Apis mellifera L.)	5

Metapodal shields: standardizing the morphometric study of Varroa destructor	4
The dose makes the poison: feeding of antibiotic-treated winter honey bees, Apis mellifera, with probiotics and b-vitamins	4
Short-term heat exposure at sublethal temperatures reduces sperm quality in males of a solitary bee species, Osmia cornifrons	4
The impact of agricultural intensification on bee health and abundance	4
Correction to: Fatty acid homeostasis in honey bees (Apis mellifera) fed commercial diet supplements	4
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
The reliability of honey bee density estimates from trapped drones	4
Landscape influences genetic diversity but does not limit gene flow in a Neotropical pollinator	4
Parasitoid flies associated with bumble bees (Bombus spp.) in Argentina	4
Transcriptome analysis reveals differentially expressed genes between the ovary and testis of the honey bee Apis mellifera	4
Dynamics of honey bee colony death and its implications for Varroa destructor mite transmission using observation hives	4
Lithium chloride leads to concentration dependent brood damages in honey bee hives (Apis mellifera) during control of the mite Varroa destructor	4
Proline and β-alanine influence bumblebee nectar consumption without affecting survival	4
Reproductive quality in drones bred from Caucasian (A. m. caucasica) and Italian (A. m. ligustica) honey bee colonies	4
Continuous hive monitoring reveals colony growth and activity differences among mite-resistant and Italian honey bee stocks	4
Sex and caste effects on the vibrational sensitivity in honey bees (Apis mellifera)	4
The effect of major abiotic stressors on honey bee (Apis mellifera L.) queens and potential impact on their progeny	4
Nesting behavior of the red dwarf honeybee, Apis florea Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Apidae)	4
Karyotypic variation in the stingless bee Trigona spinipes (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini) from different geographical regions of Brazil	4
Conditioning honeybees to a specific mimic odor increases foraging activity on a self-compatible almond variety	4
A fully automatic classification of bee species from wing images	4
Genetic parameters, trends, and inbreeding in a honeybee breeding program for royal jelly production and behavioral traits	4