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Bumble bee banquet: Genus‐ and species‐level floral selection by Midwestern Bombus

Ecosphere, 2023
Regionally specific flower preference data are needed to optimize conservation habitat plantings for at‐risk pollinators such as bumble bees (Bombus spp.).
Jessie Lanterman Novotny, Andrew Lybbert, Paige Reeher, Randall J. Mitchell, Karen Goodell   +4 more
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Bee community and trait‐based responses to fire in a Mediterranean landscape

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
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
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Estimating wild bee population size with validated distance sampling

Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
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

Do Laboratory‐Reared Flies Perform Differently as Pollinators? Morphology, Behaviour and Pollination Performance of Eristalis tenax (Syrphidae)

Journal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flies (Diptera) are important pollinators in global agriculture, yet little is known about how intraspecific trait variation influences their pollination performance. We compared morphological traits, foraging behaviour and pollination‐related performance metrics between laboratory‐reared (hereafter lab‐reared) and wild populations of ...
Abby E. Davis, Lena Alice Schmidt, Karen C. B. S. Santos, Samantha Harrington, Raylea Rowbottom, Amy Lucas, Cameron Spurr, Blake M. Dawson, Romina Rader   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Materials on the fauna of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) of Penza Region

Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Естественные науки
Background. The study of the bumblebee fauna in Penza region can inform the development of regional policies for sustainable environmental management, including biodiversity conservation.
T.G. Stojko, O.A. Polumordvinov
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Genomic responses to increased temperature and pollinator selection in Brassica rapa L.

New Phytologist, EarlyView.
Summary Rapid environmental change reshapes both abiotic stress and biotic interactions, yet it remains unclear how these combined forces structure plants' genomic adaptation. In particular, the joint influence of temperature and pollinator identity, two ecological axes undergoing simultaneous global shifts, has rarely been quantified at genomic ...
Yanqian Ding, Florian P. Schiestl
wiley   +1 more source

Soil acidity stress: A faba bean (Vicia faba L.) cultivation challenge in Ethiopia, mitigation, and future perspectives

Agrosystems, Geosciences &Environment, Volume 9, Issue 1, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Soil acidity is among the most important abiotic stresses globally constraining agricultural land and crop productivity. Globally, about 30%–40% of total arable land is under the influence of acidic soil. In Ethiopia, approximately 43% of arable land and productive areas are constrained by acidic soil.
Morketa Gudeta, Adugna Hunduma
wiley   +1 more source

Identification and analysis of the male labial gland secretions of three species of Bombus (Thoracobombus) (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Journal of Crop Protection, 2014
The males of the three species of bumblebees, Bombus (Thoracobombus) ruderarius (Müller), B. (T.) persicus Radoszkowskiand B. (T.) mesomelas Gerstaecker collected from Vikan village, Qazvin province and their male labial gland secretions were analyzed by
Parisa Abdoli, Alireza Monfared
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Eco‐Evolutionary Dynamics of Generalist and Specialist Pollinators Facing Plant Diversity Changes

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
We use a trait‐based eco‐evolutionary model to explore how changes in flowering plant composition affect interacting pollinators on short‐term ecological and long‐term evolutionary timescales. We find that evolutionary responses to landscape simplification, especially among generalist pollinators, may lead to a substantial loss of functional diversity ...
Martin Eriksson, Mikael Pontarp
wiley   +1 more source

Do Buzz‐Pollinating Bumble Bees Facilitate Honey Bee Pollination in Southern Highbush Blueberry Through Increasing Pollen Release?

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
Diversified pollinator assemblages can provide pollinator facilitation and complementarity in cropping systems. When bumble bees are present, honey bees are no more capable of accumulating pollen, but there are more direct interactions between bees that can improve cross pollination.
John J. Ternest, Patricio R. Muñoz, Rachel E. Mallinger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source