PNAS|Flying, nectar-loaded honey bees conserve water and improve heat tolerance by reducing wingbeat frequency and metabolic heat production Significance Despite the need to be able to predict the effects of climatic warming on animals, we lack methods to assess actual…

Host-derived organic acids enable gut colonization ofthe honey bee symbiont Snodgrassella alvi Abstract Diverse bacteria can colonize the animal gut using dietary nutrients or by engaging inmicrobial crossfeeding interactions. Less is known about the role of host-derived nutrients inenabling gut…

Life-history stage determines the diet ofectoparasiticmites on their honey beehosts Abstract Ectoparasitic mites ofthe genera Varroa and Tropilaelaps have evolved to exclusively exploithoney bees as food sources during alternating dispersal and reproductive life history stages.Here we show that the primary…