Virus distributions in wild bees are associated with floral communities at local to landscape scales.

ABSTRACT: Bees are focal pollinators, essential for maintaining biodiversity and crop production. Thus, reports of high annual honey bee colony losses and population declines among many wild bees in different parts of the world are of major concern. The spread of viruses is highlighted as a potential threat to bee communities. Viruses infect a wide range of bee species and can be transmitted interspecifically through shared floral resources. Therefore, the role of flowers as hubs of bee virus transmission requires a community ecology perspective. Here, we investigate local and landscape-scale characteristics of floral communities potentially associated with the spread of viruses in the solitary Andrena spp. (mining bees). We surveyed 14 sites in a Mediterranean agroecosystem with varying local densi

SUBMITTER: Kahnonitch I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12604080 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature