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Native Prey and Invasive Predator Patterns of Foraging Activity: The Case of the Yellow-Legged Hornet Predation at European Honeybee Hives by Monceau, Karine, Arca, Mariangela, Leprêtre, Lisa, Mougel, Florence, Bonnard, Olivier, Silvain, Jean-François, Maher, Nevile, Arnold, Gérard, Thiéry, Denis

“…Contrary to native predators, which have co-evolved with their prey, alien predators often benefit from native prey naïveté. Vespa velutina, a honeybee…”
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High accuracy monitoring of honey bee colony development by a quantitative method by Capela, Nuno, Dupont, Yoko L., Rortais, Agnès, Sarmento, Artur, Papanikolaou, Alexandra, Topping, Christopher J., Arnold, Gérard, Pinto, M. Alice, Rodrigues, Pedro J., More, Simon J., Tosi, Simone, Alves, Thiago S., Sousa, José Paulo

“…Honey bees are key insect pollinators, providing important economic and ecological value for human beings and ecosystems. This has triggered the development of…”
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A systems‐based approach to the environmental risk assessment of multiple stressors in honey bees by More, Simon, Bampidis, Vasileios, Benford, Diane, Bragard, Claude, Halldorsson, Thorhallur, Hernández‐Jerez, Antonio, Bennekou, Susanne Hougaard, Koutsoumanis, Kostas, Machera, Kyriaki, Naegeli, Hanspeter, Nielsen, Søren Saxmose, Schlatter, Josef, Schrenk, Dieter, Silano, Vittorio, Turck, Dominique, Younes, Maged, Arnold, Gerard, Dorne, Jean‐Lou, Maggiore, Angelo, Pagani, Stephen, Szentes, Csaba, Terry, Simon, Tosi, Simone, Vrbos, Domagoj, Zamariola, Giorgia, Rortais, Agnes

“…The European Parliament requested EFSA to develop a holistic risk assessment of multiple stressors in honey bees. To this end, a systems‐based approach that is…”
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Conflicts of interest and improvement through peer review: the case of IPBES report on pollinators by Arnold, Gérard

“…To understand the real causes of disorders and abnormal mortalities of bees (honeybees and wild bees) in the world, the scientific method requires that each…”
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Risk assessment of pesticides and other stressors in bees: Principles, data gaps and perspectives from the European Food Safety Authority by Rortais, Agnès, Arnold, Gérard, Dorne, Jean-Lou, More, Simon J., Sperandio, Giorgio, Streissl, Franz, Szentes, Csaba, Verdonck, Frank

“…Current approaches to risk assessment in bees do not take into account co-exposures from multiple stressors. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is…”
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GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE CYPRIAN HONEY BEE (Apis mellifera cypria) BASED ON MICROSATELLITES AND MITOCHONDRIAL DNA POLYMORPHISMS by Papachristoforou, Alexandros, Rortais, Agnes, Bouga, Maria, Arnold, Gerard, Garnery, Lionel

“…Honey bee populations from the island of Cyprus were analyzed using microsatellite and mitochondrial DNA markers. A total of 268 colonies were sampled in…”
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Social Contact Acts as Appetitive Reinforcement and Supports Associative Learning in Honeybees by Cholé, Hanna, Carcaud, Julie, Mazeau, Hélène, Famié, Sylvain, Arnold, Gérard, Sandoz, Jean-Christophe

“…Social learning is taxonomically widespread in the animal kingdom [1], and although it is long thought to be a hallmark of vertebrates, recent studies revealed…”
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Antenna movements as a function of odorants’ biological value in honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) by Cholé, Hanna, Merlin, Alice, Henderson, Nicholas, Paupy, Estelle, Mahé, Prisca, Arnold, Gérard, Sandoz, Jean-Christophe

“…In honeybees, the antennae are highly mobile sensory organs that express scanning movements in various behavioral contexts and toward many stimuli, especially…”
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Cloning and Expression of a Queen Pheromone-Binding Protein in the Honeybee: an Olfactory-Specific, Developmentally Regulated Protein by Danty, Emmanuelle, Briand, Loic, Michard-Vanhee, Christine, Perez, Valerie, Arnold, Gerard, Gaudemer, Odile, Huet, Dominique, Huet, Jean-Claude, Ouali, Christian, Masson, Claudine, Pernollet, Jean-Claude

“…Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are small abundant extracellular proteins thought to participate in perireceptor events of odor-pheromone detection by…”
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Interspecific variation of antennal lobe composition among four hornet species by Couto, Antoine, Arnold, Gérard, Ai, Hiroyuki, Sandoz, Jean-Christophe

“…Olfaction is a crucial sensory modality underlying foraging, social and mating behaviors in many insects. Since the olfactory system is at the interface…”
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Pesticides and bees by Maxim, Laura, Arnold, Gérard

“…Graphical Abstract The European Commission's ban on neonicotinoid pesticides in the EU and the resulting lawsuit from Bayer and Syngenta, two major producers,…”
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How Apis mellifera Behaves with its Invasive Hornet Predator Vespa velutina? by Monceau, Karine, Arca, Mariangela, Leprêtre, Lisa, Bonnard, Olivier, Arnold, Gérard, Thiéry, Denis

“…Invasive species are now recognized as a major cause of native biodiversity loss worldwide. In the current deleterious context for pollinators, the invasive…”
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Defensive behaviour of Apis mellifera against Vespa velutina in France: Testing whether European honeybees can develop an effective collective defence against a new predator by Arca, Mariangela, Papachristoforou, Alexandros, Mougel, Florence, Rortais, Agnès, Monceau, Karine, Bonnard, Olivier, Tardy, Pascal, Thiéry, Denis, Silvain, Jean-François, Arnold, Gérard

“…•Since 2004 honeybees in France have to confront the invasive species Vespa velutina.•Hornets predation is effective through “bee-hawking” and direct attack at…”
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The bite of the honeybee: 2-heptanone secreted from honeybee mandibles during a bite acts as a local anaesthetic in insects and mammals by Papachristoforou, Alexandros, Kagiava, Alexia, Papaefthimiou, Chrisovalantis, Termentzi, Aikaterini, Fokialakis, Nikolas, Skaltsounis, Alexios-Leandros, Watkins, Max, Arnold, Gérard, Theophilidis, George

“…Honeybees secrete 2-heptanone (2-H) from their mandibular glands when they bite. Researchers have identified several possible functions: 2-H could act as an…”
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Effects of patriline on gustatory responsiveness and olfactory learning in honey bees by Scheiner, Ricarda, Arnold, Gérard

“…Associative proboscis extension learning differs widely among bees of a colony. This variety of performances is often related to differences in sucrose…”
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Daily and Seasonal Extranidal Behaviour Variations in the Invasive Yellow-Legged Hornet, Vespa velutina Lepeletier (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) by Monceau, Karine, Tourat, Amélie, Arca, Mariangela, Bonnard, Olivier, Arnold, Gérard, Thiéry, Denis

“…In eusocial insect species, the nest represents the fundamental element of the colony. Extranidal activities (foraging, nest maintenance, defence) are…”
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Sublethal doses of imidacloprid decreased size of hypopharyngeal glands and respiratory rhythm of honeybees in vivo by Hatjina, Fani, Papaefthimiou, Chrisovalantis, Charistos, Leonidas, Dogaroglu, Taylan, Bouga, Maria, Emmanouil, Christina, Arnold, Gerard

“…Most studies that have shown negative sublethal effects of the pesticide imidacloprid on honeybees concern behavioral effects; only a few concern physiological…”
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Maximize EU pollinator protection: Minimize risk by Simon-Delso, Noa, Aebi, Alexandre, Arnold, Gerard, Bonmatin, Jean Marc, Hatjina, Fani, Medrzycki, Piotr, Sgolastra, Fabio

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Smothered to death: Hornets asphyxiated by honeybees by Papachristoforou, Alexandros, Rortais, Agnès, Zafeiridou, Georgia, Theophilidis, George, Garnery, Lionel, Thrasyvoulou, Andreas, Arnold, Gérard

“…Asian honeybees have been shown to kill hornets by ‘thermo- balling’, in which they surround a hornet to form a ball within which the temperature increases to…”
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Review of the DraI COI-COII test for the conservation of the black honeybee (Apis mellifera mellifera) by Rortais, Agnès, Arnold, Gérard, Alburaki, Mohamed, Legout, Hélène, Garnery, Lionel

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