All Stories

  1. Weak and contradictory effects of self-medication with nectar nicotine by parasitized bumblebees

    Article • F1000Research, March 2015, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.

    Dr David Baracchi, Lars Chittka

  2. Speed and accuracy in nest-mate recognition: a hover wasp prioritizes face recognition over colony odour cues to minimize intrusion by outsiders

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr David Baracchi

  3. A Socio-Spatial Combined Approach Confirms a Highly Compartmentalised Structure in Honeybees

    Article • Ethology, August 2014, Wiley

    Dr David Baracchi

  4. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Conserved class of queen pheromones stops social insect workers from reproducing.

    Article • April 2014, F1000Research

    Dr David Baracchi

  5. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Disease associations between honeybees and bumblebees as a threat to wild pollinators.

    Article • February 2014, F1000Research

    Dr David Baracchi

  6. Faculty Opinions recommendation of The tarsal taste of honey bees: behavioral and electrophysiological analyses.

    Article • February 2014, F1000Research

    Dr David Baracchi

  7. Le difese naturali delle colonie di api contro le malattie

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr David Baracchi

  8. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Phylogenomics resolves evolutionary relationships among ants, bees, and wasps.

    Article • October 2013, F1000Research

    Dr David Baracchi

  9. Ants as bioaccumulators of metals from soils: Body content and tissue-specific distribution of metals in the ant Crematogaster scutellaris

    Article • European Journal of Soil Biology, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr David Baracchi

  10. Major changes in the sex differences in cuticular chemical profiles of the western conifer seed bug (Leptoglossus occidentalis) after laboratory rearing

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr David Baracchi

  11. Faculty Opinions recommendation of Reception and learning of electric fields in bees.

    Article • June 2013, F1000Research

    Dr David Baracchi

  12. Facial markings in the hover wasps: quality signals and familiar recognition cues in two species of Stenogastrinae

    Article • Animal Behaviour, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr David Baracchi

  13. Evidence for antiseptic behaviour towards sick adult bees in honey bee colonies

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, December 2012, Elsevier

    Dr David Baracchi

  14. From individual to collective immunity: The role of the venom as antimicrobial agent in the Stenogastrinae wasp societies

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, January 2012, Elsevier

    Dr David Baracchi

  15. Beyond the antipredatory defence: Honey bee venom function as a component of social immunity

    Article • Toxicon, November 2011, Elsevier

    Dr David Baracchi

  16. Relevance of wing morphology in distinguishing and classifying genera and species of Stenogastrinae wasps

    Article • Contributions to Zoology, August 2011, Brill

    Dr David Baracchi

  17. Home Range Analysis in the Study of Spatial Organization on the Comb in the Paper Wasp Polistes Dominulus

    Article • Ethology, June 2010, Wiley

    Dr David Baracchi

  18. Medium molecular weight polar substances of the cuticle as tools in the study of the taxonomy, systematics and chemical ecology of tropical hover wasps (Hymenoptera: Stenogastrinae)

    Article • Journal of Zoological Systematics & Evolutionary Research, May 2010, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr David Baracchi

  19. Differences in venom and cuticular peptides in individuals of Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) determined by MALDI-TOF MS

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr David Baracchi

  20. Phylogeography and counter-intuitive inferences in island biogeography: evidence from morphometric markers in the mobile butterfly Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus) (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae)

    Article • Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, October 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr David Baracchi