Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies

• DOI: 10.3897/oneeco.6.e63653
• Publication Date: 2021-05-17T08:00:18Z
• Authors: Maryse Vanderplanck; Denis Michez; Matthias Albrecht; Eleanor Attridge; Aurélie Babin; Irene Bottero; Tom Breeze; Mark Brown; Marie-Pierre Chauzat; Elena Cini; Cecilia Costa; Pilar De la Rua; Joachim de Miranda; Gennaro Di Prisco; Christophe Dominik; Daniel Dzul; William Fiordaliso; Sébastien Gennaux; Guillaume Ghisbain; Simon Hodge; Alexandra-Maria K...; Jessica Knapp; Anina Knauer; Marion Laurent; Victor Lefebvre; Marika Mänd; Baptiste Martinet; Vicente Martinez-...; Piotr Medrzycki; Maria Helena Pere...; Simon Potts; Kimberly Przybyla; Risto Raimets; Maj Rundlöf; Oliver Schweiger; Deepa Senapathi; José Serrano; Jane Stout; Edward Straw; Giovanni Tamburini; Yusuf Toktas; Maxence Gérard
• Keywords: Bumblebee; Bombus terrestris; Habitat Fragmentation

Current global change substantially threatens pollinators, which directly impacts the pollination services underpinning stability, structure and functioning of ecosystems. Amongst these threats, many synergistic drivers, such as habitat destruction fragmentation, increasing use agrochemicals, decreasing resource diversity, well climate change, are known to affect wild managed bees. Therefore, reliable indicators for pollinator sensitivity threats needed. Biological traits, phenotype (e.g. shape, size asymmetry) storage reserves fat body size), important traits linked reproductive success, immunity, resilience foraging efficiency and, therefore, could serve valuable markers bee health service potential. This data paper contains an extensive dataset wing morphology content European honeybee ( Apis mellifera ) buff-tailed bumblebee Bombus terrestris sampled at 128 sites across eight countries in landscape gradients dominated by two major bee-pollinated crops (apple oilseed rape), before after focal crop bloom potential pesticide exposure. The also includes environmental metrics each sampling site, namely use. offer opportunity test whether variation bodies bees is structured factors drivers change. Overall, provides information identify predominantly contribute modification traits.