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  1. Beekeeping Development in Nepal: Benefits of Apis cerana Despite Lower Honey Production than Apis mellifera

    Article • Bee World, August 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  2. The missing queen: a non-invasive method to identify queenless stingless bee hives

    Article • Apidologie, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  3. Assessing the economic and nutritional value of pollination services in Nepal

    Article • Scientific Reports, October 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  4. A sustainable and bee-pollinated coffee to start your day

    Article • October 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Full Professor José Mauricio Simões Bento, Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  5. Acute fipronil toxicity induces high mortality rate for honeybees and stingless bees, with the latter facing heightened risk

    Article • Apidologie, September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  6. The Worker Flow at the Hive Entrance Predicts When Nest Cleaning is Intensified in Stingless Bees

    Article • Psyche A Journal of Entomology, May 2024, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  7. The impact of pollinator decline on global protein production: Implications for livestock and plant-based products

    Article • Global Ecology and Conservation, April 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  8. Pollen diet diversity across bee lineages varies with lifestyle rather than colony size

    Article • Journal of Insect Science, March 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  9. A systemic fungicide might reduce the male genitalia of a stingless bee species by one-third

    Article • Entomological Communications, December 2023, Sociedade Entomologica do Brasil

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  10. Survivorship and food consumption of immatures and adults of Apis mellifera and Scaptotrigona bipunctata exposed to genetically modified eucalyptus pollen

    Article • Transgenic Research, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  11. The queens of the stingless bees: from egg to adult

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  12. Sperm motility after freezing stingless bee sperm

    Article • Cryobiology, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  13. Scientific note: a stingless bee species attempting to invade a foreign region

    Article • Apidologie, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  14. Beekeeping Livelihood Development in Nepal: Value-Added Opportunities and Professional Support Needs

    Article • Journal of Economic Entomology, May 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  15. Influence of seasonal weather variables and habitat type on numbers of colonies of the giant honey bee in Nepal

    Article • Apidologie, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  16. Data standardization of plant–pollinator interactions

    Article • GigaScience, January 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  17. The widespread trade in stingless beehives may introduce them into novel places and could threaten species

    Article • Journal of Applied Ecology, December 2021, Wiley

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  18. The Use of Honeybee Hives May Boost Yields of Some Crops in Nepal

    Article • Psyche A Journal of Entomology, December 2021, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  19. Mite diversity is determined by the stingless bee host species

    Article • Apidologie, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  20. Larvae of stingless bee Scaptotrigona bipunctata exposed to organophosphorus pesticide develop into lighter, smaller and deformed adult workers

    Article • Environmental Pollution, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  21. Selection and use of calling site by Boana leptolineata and Phyllomedusa distincta during the reproductive season

    Article • Iheringia Série Zoologia, January 2021, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  22. Higher richness and abundance of flower-visiting insects close to natural vegetation provide contrasting effects on mustard yields

    Article • Journal of Insect Conservation, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  23. Occurrence and ecological data on an exotic solitary bee accidentally introduced in Brazil

    Article • EntomoBrasilis, September 2020, Entomo Brasilis

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  24. Mustard plants distant from forest fragments receive a lower diversity of flower-visiting insects

    Article • Basic and Applied Ecology, September 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  25. Factors Affecting the Composition and Succession of Beetles in Exposed Pig Carcasses in Southern Brazil

    Article • Journal of Medical Entomology, August 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  26. Forest fragments and natural vegetation patches within crop fields contribute to higher oilseed rape yields in Brazil

    Article • Agricultural Systems, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  27. Looking beyond the flowers: associations of stingless bees with sap-sucking insects

    Article • The Science of Nature, March 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  28. Geometric morphometrics of the forewing shape and size discriminate Plebeia species (Hymenoptera: Apidae) nesting in different substrates

    Article • Systematic Entomology, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  29. Queen bee acceptance under threat: Neurotoxic insecticides provoke deep damage in queen-worker relationships

    Article • Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, December 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  30. Influence of Wild Bee Diversity on Canola Crop Yields

    Article • Sociobiology, October 2018, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  31. The dilemma of agricultural pollination in Brazil: Beekeeping growth and insecticide use

    Article • PLOS One, July 2018, PLOS

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  32. Cooperation and antagonism over time: a conflict faced by males of Tetragonisca angustula in nests

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, June 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  33. Recent advances in reproductive biology of stingless bees

    Article • Insectes Sociaux, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  34. Queens become workers: pesticides alter caste differentiation in bees

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2016, Nature

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  35. Relatedness and dispersal distance of eusocial bee males on mating swarms

    Article • Entomological Science, June 2016, Wiley

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  36. Eusocial bee male aggregations: spatially and temporally separated but genetically homogenous

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, February 2016, Wiley

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  37. In vitro rearing of stingless bee queens and their acceptance rate into colonies

    Article • Apidologie, October 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  38. Temperature Rise and Its Influence on the Cessation of Diapause inPlebeia droryana, a Eusocial Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Article • Annals of the Entomological Society of America, October 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  39. Diploid males of Scaptotrigona depilis are able to join reproductive aggregations (Apidae, Meliponini)

    Article • Journal of Hymenoptera Research, September 2015, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  40. Diploid males of Scaptotrigona depilis are able to join reproductive aggregations (Apidae, Meliponini)

    Article • Journal of Hymenoptera Research, June 2015, Pensoft Publishers

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  41. Climate Warming May Threaten Reproductive Diapause of a Highly Eusocial Bee

    Article • Environmental Entomology, May 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  42. An Alien in the Group: Eusocial Male Bees Sharing Nonspecific Reproductive Aggregations

    Article • Journal of Insect Science, January 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  43. Diapause in Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

    Article • Sociobiology, December 2014, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  44. Congregation Sites and Sleeping Roost of Male Stingless Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Meliponini)

    Article • Sociobiology, May 2014, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  45. Monogamy in large bee societies: a stingless paradox

    Article • The Science of Nature, January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  46. A scientific note on diploid males in a reproductive event of a eusocial bee

    Article • Apidologie, February 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  47. Interactions between carpenter bees and orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in flowers of Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. (Lecythidaceae)

    Article • Acta Amazonica, March 2012, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  48. Polinizadores de Bertholletia excelsa (Lecythidales: Lecythidaceae): interações com abelhas sem ferrão (Apidae: Meliponini) e nicho trófico

    Article • Neotropical Entomology, December 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  49. Subtle visits despite guards: Theft from nest of stingless bee (Meliponini) by orchid bee (Euglossini)

    Article • Entomological Research, July 2010, Wiley

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos

  50. Biologia reprodutiva de rainhas e machos de Tetragonisca angustula (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)

    Article • Universidade de Sao Paulo Sistema Integrado de Bibliotecas - SIBiUSP

    Dr Charles Fernando dos Santos