Bee Parasites and Pathogens's Boletim

Pollinators serve as mutualistic partners in complex ecological networks with plants. These interactions serve as essential fundamental components to terrestrial ecosystem functioning by regulating wild plant reproduction, maintaining plant diversity, forming habitat and community dynamics, providing food for other wildlife, and by influencing the dispersal of species throughout landscapes.

We can also be thankful to the ground nesters for their role in bioturbation and bringing nitrogen and other elements into the ground.

Pollinators connect different trophic levels within food webs by serving the crucial role between plants and other organisms, including herbivores, predators, and decomposers. Preserving biodiversity, maintaining a balanced ecosystems, and supporting the resilience within natural habitats requires concerted efforts to conserve pollinators.

Remember to take time and observe and encourage others to join. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/world-bee-day-week-2024
MAY 17, 2024 - MAY 23, 2024

Please feel free to welcome others, that are in your circle of pollinator observers and identifiers, to this project . The more the merrier.

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/world-bee-day-week-2024

To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day.

Pollinators visit flowers to drink plant nectar and/or eat and/or gather pollen and/or transport pollen as they move about. These actions can result in the fertilization of host plants. Bees in particular do this but so do other invertebrates such as butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, and wasps as well as vertebrates such as birds, bats, and small mammals.

Welcome to those interested to participate in the World Bee Day/Week 2024 bioblitz May 17, 2024 - May 23, 2024 and help raise awareness of this day. Last year during roughly this same time period 36,649 observers posted 151,832 qualifying observations as indicated in the World Bee Day/Week 2023 mockup project. 35766 observations were posted by the top 500 observers in 2023.

Pollinators play a vital role in maintaining biodiversity and the stability of ecosystems by facilitating flowering plant reproduction. Humans rely on the results of pollinator activity for many crops yielding food production including fruits, vegetables, and nuts, but also for the production of non-food products such as fibres, dyes, and medicines derived from plant sources. In contradiction, pollinator's stability is negatively impacted by human activity which lead to loss of habitat such as urbanization, agriculture, and land development. Agrochemicals, including pesticides and herbicides, impact pollinators by poisoning them, reducing forage, weaken immune systems, or disrupt navigation abilities. Changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, and plant phenology can disrupt pollinator and their floral resource synchronization. Human activity can introduce invasive species and their parasites and pathogens that may negatively impact native pollinators through competition and pathology.

Raising public awareness and comprehension regarding the importance of pollinators and the necessary steps for their conservation is vital for successful conservation endeavours.

 Mites

• Varroa destructor


• Laelapidae


• Hypoaspis


• Mellitiphis alvearius


• Parasitus fucorum


• Parasitellus


• Parasitellus fucorum


• Kuzinia levis


• Scutacarus acarorum


• Acarapis woodi


• Locustacarus buchneri

Pyralid Snout Moths

• Plodia interpunctella


• Ephestia kuehniella


• Cadra


• Vitula edmandsii


• Galleria mellonella


• Aphomia sociella

Spider Wasps, Velvet Ants, and Allies

• Sapygidae

Cuckoo Wasps and Allies

• Chrysididae

Chalcidoid Wasps 

• Leucospidae

Skin Beetles

• Anthrenus

Blister Beetles

• Meloe

Sap-feeding Beetles

• Aethina tumida

Hover Flies

• Volucella bombylans

Flesh Flies and Satellite Flies

• Brachicoma

Bee Lice

• Braulidae

Vinegar and Fruit Flies

• Cacoxenus indagator

Thick-headed Flies

• Conopidae

Twisted-wing Insects

• Stylopidae

Picornaviruses

• Iflaviridae

Ascomycete Fungi

• Ascosphaera apis

Protozoans

• Nosema

Aerobic Endospore-forming Bacteria

• Paenibacillus larvae


• Melissococcus plutonius

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4655097/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29718285/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277645983_Beneficial_nematodes_A_potential_threat_to_honey_bees