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Conserving wild bees for crop pollination: efficiency of bee hotels in Moroccan cherry orchards (Prunus avium)

, 2022
Food production is highly dependent on pollination services provided by insects; 75% of the leading global food crops need animals for successful production. Pollinators, including managed and wild bees, are declining in many parts of the world. The loss
Hamroud, Laila
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Bee hotels.

, 2015
A. Bee hotel on a rooftop in London, UK (Photo: Thierry Spiess). B. Cartridge-style hotels made by bundling wood (left) or plastic (right) cartridges having drill holes along one edge for opening, inspecting and cleaning. C.
J. Scott MacIvor (251811), Laurence Packer (167080)   +1 more
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The Tenants of Apple Orchards: Evaluating the Effects of Additional Nesting Habitat on Bee Populations

, 2022
Identifying the resources that limit bee populations is essential both for bee conservation and pollination management in agroecosystems. Land-use change typically leads to decreased habitat availability for wild pollinators including loss of nesting ...
Hyjazie, Batoule
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Introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) potentially reduce fitness of cavity-nesting native bees through a male-bias sex ratio, brood mortality and reduced reproduction

Frontiers in Bee Science
IntroductionIn Australia, as well as many other regions of the world, European honey bees Apis mellifera are an introduced species and may harm native bee fauna by competing with them for food resources.
Kit Prendergast, Kit Prendergast, Mark V. Murphy, Peter G. Kevan, Zong-Xin Ren, Lynne A. Milne   +5 more
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Making and Managing Wild Bee Hotels

, 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.
Spears, Lori R., Gunnell, Jaydee, Mull, Ann, Hansen, Sheriden M., Walker Bravo, Andree\u27, Ramirez, Ricardo   +5 more
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Metabarcoding Dataset - Bee Hotels

, 2021
Dataset accompanying manuscript: DNA Metabarcoding identifies urban adaptation of oligolectic and polylectic cavity-nesting bees This dataset includes raw sequencing files and the accompanying bioinformatics scripts with the parameters used to ...
Kristen Fernandes
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Air Bee n' Bee: a citizen science study of man-made solitary bee hotels as a conservation approach

, 2018
"Air Bee n' Bee" is a citizen-science study exploring the efficacy of man-made bee hotel designs in attracting solitary bee species. The species targeted by the nests are primarily are Osmia (Mason bee) and Megachilae (Leafcutter bee). In the UK, these crucial pollinators are largely unmanaged compared to hive species and require study at a ...
McNally, Xavier, Goulson, Dave, Fowler, Rob   +2 more
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AI Cracks Jokes: Building Consumer–Brand Closeness Through Machine‐Generated Humor

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Integrating AI led social cues into service encounters has become a key strategy for humanizing technology. Grounded in Social Penetration Theory, this research examines how AI‐generated humor styles (affiliative vs. self‐defeating) influence consumer brand identification and proposes consumer personality as a key moderator.
Heng Chu, Chunli Ji, Mingwei Li, Catherine Prentice   +3 more
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To provide pollinator nesting habitat, cut dead perennial stems in their first winter

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
Garden management practises need to consider stem‐nesting bees and wasps to avoid destroying active nests and important nesting materials. Volunteers collected samples of dead stems (in situ where they grew) in winter, spring, summer and fall as part of a participatory research project.
Hannah K. Levenson, Charlotte Glen, Leslie Rose, Elsa Youngsteadt   +3 more
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Tall trees and exotic herbs identified in pollen and nest materials of seven cavity-nesting solitary bee species in Australia

Frontiers in Bee Science
IntroductionSolitary bees are important pollinators yet vulnerable to decline in resource-poor landscapes. Resources for solitary bees may be supplemented by land managers through targeted plantings, however, little is known about the specific plants ...
R. S. Wilson, A. Keller, S. D. Leonhardt, T. J. Smith, C. J. Burwell, C. Fuller, A. Shapcott, B. F. Kaluza, H. M. Wallace   +8 more
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