ArticleParasitology2021
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- The trypanosomatid (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) parasites in bees: A review on their environmental circulation, impacts and implications.Current research in insect science · 2025Review
- Ecological and social factors influence interspecific pathogens occurrence among bees.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Symptomatic Infection withAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- The gut microbiome of solitary bees is mainly affected by pathogen assemblage and partially by land use.Environmental microbiome · 2023Article
- Endosymbionts that threaten commercially raised and wild bumble bees (Journal of pollination ecology · 2023Article
- Double trouble: trypanosomatids with two hosts have lower infection prevalence than single host trypanosomatids.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2023Article
- The impact of mass-flowering crops on bee pathogen dynamics.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2022Article
- Consuming sunflower pollen reduced pathogen infection but did not alter measures of immunity in bumblebees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Complex networks of parasites and pollinators: moving towards a healthy balance.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Poison or Potion: Effects of Sunflower Phenolamides on Bumble Bees and Their Gut Parasite.Biology · 2022Article
- Sunflower pollen reduces a gut pathogen in the model bee species,Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Pathogens Spillover from Honey Bees to Other Arthropods.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Eristalis flower flies can be mechanical vectors of the common trypanosome bee parasite, Crithidia bombi.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Functional traits linked to pathogen prevalence in wild bee communities.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Pathogens and lack of floral resources interactively impair global pollinator health. However, epidemiological and nutritional studies aimed at understanding bee declines have historically focused on social species, with limited evaluations of solitary bees. Here, we asked whether Crithidia bombi, a trypanosomatid gut pathogen known to infect bumble bees, could infect the solitary bees Osmia lignaria (females) and Megachile rotundata (males), and whether nutritional stress influenced infection patterns and bee survival. We found that C. bombi was able to infect both solitary bee species, with 59% of O. lignaria and 29% of M. rotundata bees experiencing pathogen replication 5–11 days following inoculation. Moreover, access to pollen resulted in O. lignaria living longer, although it did not influence M. rotundata survival. Access to pollen did not affect infection probability or resulting pathogen load in either species. Similarly, inoculating with the pathogen did not drive survival patterns in either species during the 5–11-day laboratory assays. Our results demonstrate that solitary bees can be hosts of a known bumble bee pathogen, and that access to pollen is an important contributing factor for bee survival, thus expanding our understanding of factors contributing to solitary bee health.
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