Scientific Data,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
12(1)
Published: Jan. 2, 2025
Abstract
The
global
decline
in
bee
populations
poses
significant
risks
to
agriculture,
biodiversity,
and
environmental
stability.
To
bridge
the
gap
existing
data,
we
introduce
ApisTox,
a
comprehensive
dataset
focusing
on
toxicity
of
pesticides
honey
bees
(Apis
mellifera).
This
combines
leverages
data
from
sources
such
as
ECOTOX
PPDB,
providing
an
extensive,
consistent,
curated
collection
that
surpasses
previous
datasets.
ApisTox
incorporates
wide
array
including
levels
for
chemicals,
details
time
their
publication
literature,
identifiers
linking
them
external
chemical
databases.
may
serve
important
tool
agricultural
research,
but
also
can
support
development
policies
practices
aimed
at
minimizing
harm
populations.
Finally,
offers
unique
resource
benchmarking
molecular
property
prediction
methods
agrochemical
compounds,
facilitating
advancements
both
science
chemoinformatics.
makes
it
valuable
academic
research
practical
applications
conservation.
Insects,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(1), P. 98 - 98
Published: Jan. 15, 2022
Bumblebees
are
key
pollinators
in
agricultural
landscapes.
However,
little
is
known
about
how
gut
microbial
communities
respond
to
anthropogenic
changes.
We
used
commercially
produced
colonies
of
buff-tailed
bumblebees
(Bombus
terrestris)
placed
three
habitats.
Whole
guts
(midgut,
hindgut,
and
rectum)
B.
terrestris
specimens
were
dissected
from
the
body
analyzed
using
16S
phylogenetic
community
analysis.
observed
significantly
different
bacterial
composition
between
landscapes
(apple
orchards
oilseed
rape
(Brassica
napus)
fields)
forest
meadows,
whereas
differences
fields
nonsignificant.
Bee-specific
genera
such
as
Lactobacillus,
Snodgrassella,
Gilliamella
dominated
specimens.
In
contrast,
meadows
by
fructose-associated
Fructobacillus
spp.
Bacterial
workers
most
diverse.
At
same
time,
those
males
young
queens
less
diverse,
possibly
reflecting
greater
exposure
colony's
inner
environment
compared
outside
colony,
well
bumblebee
age.
Our
results
suggest
that
habitat
quality,
environmental
microbes,
nectar
quality
accessibility,
land
use
affect
terrestris.
Scientific Data,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
12(1)
Published: Jan. 2, 2025
Abstract
The
global
decline
in
bee
populations
poses
significant
risks
to
agriculture,
biodiversity,
and
environmental
stability.
To
bridge
the
gap
existing
data,
we
introduce
ApisTox,
a
comprehensive
dataset
focusing
on
toxicity
of
pesticides
honey
bees
(Apis
mellifera).
This
combines
leverages
data
from
sources
such
as
ECOTOX
PPDB,
providing
an
extensive,
consistent,
curated
collection
that
surpasses
previous
datasets.
ApisTox
incorporates
wide
array
including
levels
for
chemicals,
details
time
their
publication
literature,
identifiers
linking
them
external
chemical
databases.
may
serve
important
tool
agricultural
research,
but
also
can
support
development
policies
practices
aimed
at
minimizing
harm
populations.
Finally,
offers
unique
resource
benchmarking
molecular
property
prediction
methods
agrochemical
compounds,
facilitating
advancements
both
science
chemoinformatics.
makes
it
valuable
academic
research
practical
applications
conservation.