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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]
InsectsWildfires 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 S Prendergast, Rachele S Wilson
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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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Wild solitary bees and their use of bee hotels in southwest Spain [PDF]
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 E González-Zamora, Mireia Corell
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Bee hotels host a high abundance of exotic bees in an urban context
Acta Oecologica, 2020 Bee hotels are increasingly set up by land managers in public parks to promote wild bee populations. However, we have very little evidence of the usefulness of bee hotels as tools to help the conservation of wild bees within cities. In this study, we installed 96 bee hotels in public parks of Marseille (France) for a year and followed their use as a ...
Benoit Geslin +2 more
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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 +2 more
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Proceedings of the 5th European Congress of Conservation Biology, 2018 "Air Bee n' Bee" is a citizen-science study exploring the efficacy of man-made bee hotel designs in attracting solitary bee species.
Xavier McNally, Dave Goulson, Rob Fowler
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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 +10 more
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Urban Ecosystems, 2023 AbstractWith urbanisation leading to loss of nesting resources, and increasing public interest in helping bees, bee hotels (trap-nests) are becoming popularised. However, their success is relatively understudied. The influence of habitat type in determining occupancy and emergence is also poorly known.
Kit S Prendergast
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Identification of potential insect ecological interactions using a metabarcoding approach [PDF]
PeerJSpecies 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 +7 more
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