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'Bee hotels' as tools for native pollinator conservation: a premature verdict? [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Society is increasingly concerned with declining wild bee populations. Although most bees nest in the ground, considerable effort has centered on installing 'bee hotels'--also known as nest boxes or trap nests--which artificially aggregate nest sites of ...
J Scott MacIvor, Laurence Packer
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Bee Hotels as a Tool for Post-Fire Recovery of Cavity-Nesting Native Bees [PDF]

Insects
Wildfires are increasing in extent and severity under anthropogenic climate change, with potential adverse impacts on native pollinators like wild bees. In 2019/2020, wildfires burned swathes of the Australian bushland.
Kit Stasia Prendergast, Rachele S. Wilson   +1 more
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Ornamental roses for conservation of leafcutter bee pollinators [PDF]

Scientific Reports, 2022
Pollinator conservation is a global priority. Efforts are taken to restore pollinators by improving flower resources, a crucial driver of pollinator diversity and population growth.
Palatty Allesh Sinu, Mubarak Jamal, Greeshma Shaji, M. Hariraveendra, Gopika Viswan, P. Abhiram Krishnan, Ankita Das, K. Aneha, A. R. Pooja, Spandana Salikity, V. Arathy   +10 more
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Build it and they will come: grasshoppers check-in to a grassland bee hotel [PDF]

Journal of Orthoptera Research, 2018
A five-floor bee hotel was constructed using wooden pallets in an area of urban grassland in Ipswich, United Kingdom. Within one month of construction, two grasshopper species were observed using the hotel, with nymphs in shaded, uncut grass at the base,
Tim Gardiner, Kimberley Fargeaud
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Landscape Simplification Modifies Trap-Nesting Bee and Wasp Communities in the Subtropics [PDF]

Insects, 2020
(1) Background: Landscape simplification is a major threat to bee and wasp conservation in the tropics, but reliable, long-term population data are lacking. We investigated how community composition, diversity, and abundance of tropical solitary bees and
Rachele S. Wilson, Sara D. Leonhardt, Chris J. Burwell, Chris Fuller, Tobias J. Smith, Benjamin F. Kaluza, Helen M. Wallace   +6 more
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Identification of potential insect ecological interactions using a metabarcoding approach [PDF]

PeerJ
Species interactions are challenging to quantify, particularly when they happen cryptically. Molecular methods have become a key tool to uncover these interactions when they leave behind a DNA trace from the interacting organism (e.g., pollen on a bee ...
Nicole D. Borsato, Katherine Lunn, Nina R. Garrett, Alejandro José Biganzoli-Rangel, Daniel Marquina, Dirk Steinke, Robin Floyd, Elizabeth L. Clare   +7 more
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Making and Managing Wild Bee Hotels [PDF]

, 2022
Bee hotels (also called "bee boxes" and "bee blocks") are popular additions to Utah backyards and commercial agriculture alike, adding nesting habitat to aid local pollination efforts and address native pollinator declines. This fact sheet provides information about the construction, placement, and maintenance of bee hotels.
Mull, Ann, Spears, Lori R., Hansen, Sheriden M., Walker Bravo, Andree', Ramirez, Ricardo, Gunnell, Jaydee   +5 more
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Stem-nesting Hymenoptera in Irish farmland: empirical evaluation of artificial trap nests as tools for fundamental research and pollinator conservation

Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2022
Insect pollinators are suffering global declines, necessitating the evaluation and development of methods for long-term monitoring and applied field research.
Simon Hodge, Irene Bottero, Robin Dean, Stephanie Maher, Jane Stout   +4 more
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Wild solitary bees and their use of bee hotels in southwest Spain

Journal of Apicultural Research, 2021
There is an increasing interest in preserving and, if possible, increasing wild bee populations as evidenced by increasinginvestigations into providing supplemental nesting resources, commonly called bee hotels. The study presented herewas carried out in 2017 and 2018 with two objectives: a) to understand the role that insect refuges could have ...
José Enrique González-Zamora, José A. Hidalgo-Matas, Mireia Corell-González   +2 more
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Citizen science initiatives increase pollinator activity in private gardens and green spaces

Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023
Wild insect pollinators are essential to cultivated and natural ecosystems globally. Today, many pollinator species are declining. One reason is a general lack of flowering habitats at landscape scales.
Anna S. Persson, Veronica Hederström, Iris Ljungkvist, Lovisa Nilsson, Liam Kendall   +4 more
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