Sussex Plan for Honey Bee Health & Well Being, Publications January 2015
Research publications arising from the Sussex Plan for Honey Bee Health & Well Being
To be submitted in the next 3 months (n = 9; the titles are provisional)
Alton, K., Ratnieks, F. L. W. Roof top hives: Practical beekeeping or publicity stunt?
Al Toufailia, H. M., Scandian, L., Ratnieks, F. L. W. The effectiveness of spring drone brood trapping to control
Varroa populations in honey bee colonies.
Al Toufailia, H. M., Scandian, L., Ratnieks, F. L. W. Effectiveness of different methods of quantifying Varroa populations in honey bee colonies.
Balfour, N. J., Fensome, K. A., Samuelson, E. E. W., Ratnieks, F. L. W. Following the Dance: Ground survey of flowers and flower visiting insects in a summer foraging hotspot identified via honey bee dance decoding.
Carreck, N.L., Ratnieks, F. L. W. The foraging of honey bees and other insects on corn, and neonic levels in corn pollen.
Garbuzov, M., Ratnieks, F. L. W. et al. Effect of direct and indirect training methods on the accuracy with which volunteers identify flower-visiting insects.
Schürch, R., Ratnieks, F. L. W. Determining the foraging potential of oilseed rape to honey bees using aerial surveys and geographical modelling.
Shackleton, K., Ratnieks, F. L. W. Attractiveness of garden flowers to butterflies and bees.
Shackleton, K., Ratnieks, F. L. W. Does height above ground affect the types of insects that visit flowers?
Submitted (n = 5)
Balfour, Carreck, Ratnieks. Effect of plant size on neonic contamination in corn and oil seed rape plant tissues following seed treatment with neonics.
Couvillon, M. J., Alton, K., Walter, C., Czaczkes, T. J., Ratnieks, F. L.W. Busy bees: bees visit more flowers per minute than other types of flower-visiting insects.
Couvillon, M. J., Ratnieks, F. L. W. Environmental consultancy: using honey bee waggle dances as a bioindicator to evaluate landscape “health”.
Ratnieks, F. L. W., Schürch, R. The information content of the honey bee waggle dance.
Ratnieks, F. L. W., Shackleton, K. Does waggle dance communication enable honey bees to forage at greater distances?
Accepted for publication (n = 3)
Garbuzov, M., Ratnieks, F. L. W. Using the UK national collection of asters at Picton Garden to compare the attractiveness of 228 varieties to flower-visiting insects. Environmental Entomology (accepted)
Garbuzov, M., Schürch, R., Couvillon, M. J. C., Ratnieks, F.L.W. Honey bee dance decoding shows limited foraging on oilseed rape, a potential source of neonicotinoid contamination. Agriculture, Ecosystems &
Environment (accepted)
Al Toufailia, Scandian, Ratnieks. Comparing different doses and application methods of oxalic acid to control
Varroa. Journal of Apicultural Research (accepted).
Published (n = 25)
Al Toufailia, H. M., Amiri, E., Scandian, L., Kryger, P., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Towards integrated control of varroa: effect of variation in hygienic behaviour among honey bee colonies on mite population increase and deformed wing virus incidence. Journal of Apicultural Research 53: 555-562.
Bigio, G., Al Toufailia, H., Hughes, W. O. H., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. The effect of one generation of controlled mating on the expression of hygienic behaviour in honey bees. Journal of Apicultural Research
53: 563-568.
Bigio, G., Al Toufailia, H., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Honey bee hygienic behaviour does not incur a cost via removal of healthy brood. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 27: 226-230.
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Sussex Plan for Honey Bee Health & Well Being, Publications January 2015
Carreck, N. L., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. The dose makes the poison: have “field realistic” rates of exposure of bees to neonicotinoid insecticides been overestimated in laboratory studies? Journal of Apicultural
Research 53: 607-614.
Couvillon, M. J., Riddell-Pearce, F. C., Accleton, C., Fensome, K. A., Quah, S. L. K., Taylor, E., Ratnieks, F. L.
W. 2014. Honey bee foraging distance depends on month and forage type. Apidologie DOI:
10.1007/s13592-014-0302-5.
Couvillon, M. J., Schürch, R., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Dancing bees communicate a foraging preference for rural lands in high-level agri-environment schemes. Current Biology 24: 1-4.
Couvillon, M. J., Schürch, R., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Waggle dance distances as integrative indicators of seasonal foraging challenges. PLOS ONE Published: April 02, 2014DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093495
Garbuzov, M., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Listmania: The strengths and weaknesses of lists of garden plants to help pollinators. BioScience doi: 10.1093/biosci/biu150
Garbuzov, M., Samuelson, E. E. W., Ratnieks, F.L.W. 2014. Survey of insect visitation of ornamental flowers in
Southover Grange garden, Lewes, UK. Insect Science. Insect Science DOI: 10.1111/1744-7917.12162
Garbuzov, M., Fensome, K., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Public approval plus more wildlife: twin benefits of reduced mowing of amenity grass in a suburban public park in Saltdean, UK. Insect Conservation &
Diversity doi: 10.1111/icad.12085
Garbuzov, M., Madsen, A., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Patch size has no effect on insect visitation rate per unit area ingarden-scale flower patches. Acta Oecologica 62: 53-57.
Garbuzov, M., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Ivy: an underappreciated key resource to flower-visiting insects in autumn. Insect Conservation & Diversity 7: 91-102.
Garbuzov, M., Ratnieks, F.L.W. 2014. Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower-visiting insects. Functional Ecology, 28: 364-374.
Garbuzov, M., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Lattice fence and hedge barriers around an apiary increase honey bee flight height and decrease stings to people nearby. Journal of Apicultural Research 53: 67-74.
Garbuzov, M., Schürch, R., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2014. Eating locally: dance decoding demonstrates that urban honey bees forage mainly in the surrounding urban area. Urban Ecosystems DOI 10.1007/s11252-014-
0403-y
Ratnieks, F. L. W., Garbuzov, M., Balfour, N. J. 2014. Honey bees return in summer 2014. Bee Craft 96: 27-31.
Alton, K., Ratnieks, F. 2013. To bee or not to bee. The Biologist 60: 12-15.
Carreck, N., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2013. Will neonicotinoid moratorium save the bees? Research Fortnight http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_news&template=rr_2col&view=article&articleI d=1336394
Bigio, G., Schürch, R., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2013. Hygienic behavior in honey bees: effects of brood, food and time of the year. Journal of Economic Entomology 106: 2280-2285.
Carreck, N., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2013. Will neonicotinoid moratorium save the bees? Research Fortnight http://www.researchresearch.com/index.php?option=com_news&template=rr_2col&view=article&articleI d=1336394
Riddell-Pearce, F. C., Couvillon, M. J., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2013. Hive relocation does not adversely affect honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) foraging. Psyche 2013: Article ID 693856, 8 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/693856
Schürch, R., Couvillon, M. J., Burns, D. D. R., Tasman, K., Waxman, D., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2013. Incorporating variability in honey bee waggle dance decoding improves the mapping of communicated resource locations. Journal of Comparative Physiology A 199: 1143-1152.
Bigio, G., Grüter, C., Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2012. Comparing alternative methods for holding virgin honey bee queens for one week in mailing cages before mating. PLoS One 7(11): e50150. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050150
Couvillon, M. J., Riddell-Pearce, F., Harris-Jones, E. L., Kuepfer, A. M, McKenzie, S., Rozario, L., Schürch, R.,
Ratnieks, F. L. W. 2012. Intra-dance variation among waggle runs and the design of efficient protocols for honey bee dance decoding. Biology Open 1: 467-471.
Ratnieks, F. L. W., Carreck, N. L. 2010. Clarity on honey bee collapse? Science 327: 152-153.
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