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Cristina Botías

@cristinabotias.bsky.social
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Research Fellow at the Department of Life Sciences @uahes.bsky.social studying bees and the factors affecting their health

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Cristina Botías @cristinabotias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very happy to share our new study showing evidence that #Bombus terrestris may be a suboptimal host for #Vairimorpha (Nosema) ceranae. Molecular & histopathological approaches helped us distinguish DNA detection from active parasite development 🐝 🔬 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Histology & parasite-specific gene expression reveal that Vairimorpha (Nosema) ceranae establishes productive intracellular infection in Bombus terrestris, while showing that molecular detection alone may overestimate host competence
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Sean Rands @seanrands.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Flowers🌸 as infection🤧 hotspots for pollinators🐝: landscape and behaviour have an impact. New preprint from @cristinabotias.bsky.social, @bethbees.bsky.social, @nataliehempel.bsky.social and me doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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A spatially explicit model of pollinator-plant-pathogen interactions
Flowers have long been suggested to be infection hotspots for pollinator diseases, as, during their brief lifespan, they are visited and handled by many individuals from a diverse range of species. Ev...
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Phil Stevenson @philstevenson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Honeybees interfere with wild bees in apple pollination in China. Wild bees contribute much higher pollination efficiency than honeybees. Introducing honeybee colonies increased competition with wild bees leading to reduced pollination overall. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Honeybees interfere with wild bees in apple pollination in China
Both honeybees and wild bees contribute to apple pollination and production, but wild bees evidenced much higher pollination efficiency than honeybees. Importantly, introducing high density of honeyb...
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This short and sweet video about Buzz Club activities 2025 will hopefully raise a smile... youtu.be/OjrHHBXL6II
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Buzz Club
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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Harry Siviter @harrysiviter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If anyone outside the UK would like to apply for a Fellowship at Bristol I’d happily support an application if the project was of interest 🐝🌸🦋 royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
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Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society
This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
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Dr Beth Nicholls @bethbees.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
First post and it's a biggie! The first preprint from our lab is out now 🥳 Something I have wanted to know for a long time- can bumblebees taste amino acids? The answer is yes...but not all of them! 1/2 @sussexneuro.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Gustatory sensitivity to amino acids in bumblebees
Bees rely on amino acids obtained from nectar and pollen for essential physiological functions, including maintenance, sexual maturation, and larval development. While amino acid concentrations in nec...
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Darren O'Connell @daroconnell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Our new meta-analysis assessing treatments for the Varroa mite #pathogen of honey bees! This #invasive #parasite has huge impacts on crops from lost #pollination We synthesise the best options and future prospects 🧪 @ucddublin.bsky.social @healyke.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A systematic meta-analysis of the efficacy of treatments for a global honey bee pathogen - the Varroa mite
The western honey bee Apis mellifera is the world's most important managed pollinator. However, globally honey bees have been facing increasing colony…
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