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No one‐size‐fits‐all: Trait‐dependent effects of local plant diversity on pollinators and pollination service in a densifying city

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 5, May 2026.
Increasing local floral richness can support pollination success of specialised plants in dense urban landscapes. However, a floral enrichment strategy alone is less effective for generalist plants, which are typically more abundant in plant communities.
Merin Reji Chacko, David Johannes Frey, Matthias Albrecht, Jaboury Ghazoul, Marco Moretti   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bee community and trait‐based responses to fire in a Mediterranean landscape

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 530-547, May 2026.
Fire drives a short‐term increase in bee abundance and diversity, despite its strong negative impact on floral resources. Acting as an environmental filter, fire shapes bee communities as increased post‐fire fine‐scale heterogeneity favors bees with specific functional traits such as ground‐nesting and generalist species.
Georgios Nakas, Aphrodite Kantsa, Lazaros Neokosmidis, Jelle Devalez, Thomas Tscheulin, Nikos Koutsias, Mark C. Mescher, Consuelo M. De Moraes, Theodora Petanidou   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phylogenetic analysis of the mitochondrial genomes in bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila)

PLOS ONE, 2018
In this study, the first complete mitogenome of Andrenidae, namely Andrena camellia, is newly sequenced. It includes 13 protein-coding (PCG) genes, 22 transfer RNA (rRNA) genes, two ribosomal RNA (tRNA) genes, and a control region. Among PCGs, high conservation is observed in cytochrome oxidase genes with cox1 exhibits the highest conservation ...
Bo He, Tianjuan Su, Yupeng Wu, Jinshan Xu, Dunyuan Huang   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Capalictus, a new subgenus of Lasioglossum Curtis 1833 from South Africa, with description of three new species (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halictidae)

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2012
Capalictus, a new subgenus of Lasioglossum Curtis, 1833 (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Halic-tidae), endemic to the South African Cape Province, is described. The type species is Halictus mosselinus Cockerell, 1945.
Jason Gibbs, Michael Kuhlmann, Alain Pauly   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimating wild bee population size with validated distance sampling

Insect Conservation and Diversity, Volume 19, Issue 3, Page 469-483, May 2026.
Distance Sampling is a promising method to estimate population size but has never been validated on insects. We validated it on a honey bee population of known size. We applied Distance Sampling to three insular pollinators and found that estimates are consistent across days, match species phenology and reflect the expected influence of weather ...
Claudia Bruschini, Marco Penco, Olga Barghigiani, Adele Bordoni, Lorenzo Pasquali, Vania Salvati, Leonardo Dapporto, Alessandro Cini   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

New records of wild bees from a spring expedition in southern Türkiye, with six new species for the country (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila) [PDF]

Biodiversity Data Journal
Bees (Anthophila) are key pollinators, yet major gaps persist in the knowledge of their diversity and distribution, particularly across Mediterranean biodiversity hotspots.
Rémi Santerre, Denis Michez, Ahmet Aytekin, Seçil Aytekin, Jordan Benrezkallah, Thomas Brau, Frédéric Carion, Fatih Dikmen, Achik Dorchin, Vahap Eldem, Simone Flaminio, Sebastian Hopfenmüller, Ece Kamalak, Anatole Maugendre, Çiğdem Özenirler, Pierre Rasmont, Blandine Rigaut, Michaël Terzo, Clément Tourbez, Guillaume Ghisbain   +19 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Shifts in phenology influence synchrony of flowering plants and their pollinators along an elevation gradient

Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 4, April 2026.
Climatic conditions alter the phenology of species, which may threaten the synchrony of biotic interactions. However, how phenological synchrony across entire communities of plants and their pollinators responds to varying environmental conditions remains poorly understood.
Mikko Tiusanen, Anna Norberg, Anna‐Liisa Laine   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Landscape and local factors influence solitary bee nesting, but reported effects show little consistency across studies

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 4, April 2026.
Collectively, these findings indicate that agri‐environment schemes aiming to support solitary bees should integrate the provision of nesting resources with proximity to floral resources. The heterogeneity among studies highlights the need for solitary bee conservation measures to be tailored to local conditions and to the local fauna.
Colm O'Leary, Dara A. Stanley, Daire Ó hUallacháin, Jane C. Stout, Simon Hodge   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The evolution of floral sonication, a pollen foraging behavior used by bees (Anthophila) [PDF]

Evolution, 2018
Over 22,000 species of biotically pollinated flowering plants, including some major agricultural crops, depend primarily on bees capable of floral sonication for pollination services. The ability to sonicate ("buzz") flowers is widespread in bees but not ubiquitous.
Sophie Cardinal, Stephen L. Buchmann, Avery L. Russell   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

First records of eight native bee species (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) in Washington, USA [PDF]

Check List
Pollinators are an essential component of ecosystem function, and declining bee populations are a global conservation concern. Despite this importance, there is a lack of understanding regarding the distribution of native bee species across western North
Autumn Maust, Joel Gardner, Karen W. Wright, Terry Griswold, Patrick C. Tobin   +4 more
doaj   +3 more sources