Diversity of Flower-visiting Bees and their Pollen Loads on a Wildflower Seed Farm in Montana [PDF]
, 2012 During a two-year survey on a wildflower seed farm in southcentral Montana, we collected ∼50 species of bees from 18 genera in sweep samples on cultivated wildflowers and weeds.
Blodgett, Sue +4 more
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Bees of the Azores: an annotated checklist (Apidae, Hymenoptera)
ZooKeys, 2017 We report 18 species of wild bees plus the domesticated honeybee from the Azores, which adds nine species to earlier lists. One species, Hylaeus azorae, seems to be a single island endemic, and three species are possibly native (Colletes eous, Halictus ...
Julie A. Weissmann +3 more
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Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2022 Most bee species are ground-nesters, yet knowledge on the nesting behaviour of this diverse group remains sparse. Evidence on the effectiveness of ground-nesting bee species as crop pollinators is growing, but there is limited information on their ...
Konstantinos Tsiolis +6 more
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Colletes kinabalu n. sp., first record of the genus for the Malay Archipelago and southeast Asia (Hymenoptera: Anthophila: Colletidae) [PDF]
, 2014 A new species from Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo (Malaysia), Colletes kinabalu Kuhlmann, new species, is described and illustrated. This is the first record of a species of Colletes from Southeast Asia and its biogeographical implications are ...
Kuhlmann, Michael
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Discovering new floral visitors of four Chilean endemic orchids
Gayana, 2019 Orchidaceae is a diverse group with conservation issues all over the World. Due to its endangered situation, knowledge about its reproductive biology is needed to plan conservation strategies. We conducted a study during October 2016 and October 2017 in
Víctor H. Monzón +4 more
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Preliminary investigations of the species composition of the aculeate hymenopteran community in Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve (Hymenoptera, Aculeata) [PDF]
Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”The Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve is a unique location, which is an area of posttechnogenic habitat restoration, including the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where comprehensive surveys of insect diversity have not yet been conducted ...
Hanna Yu. Honchar +3 more
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Patterns of size variation in bees at a continental scale: does Bergmann’s rule apply [PDF]
, 2018 Body size latitudinal clines have been widley explained by the Bergmann’s rule in homeothermic vertebrates. However, there is no general consensus in poikilotherms organisms in particular in insects that represent the large majority of wildlife.
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Elaborated pollen packaging and dispensing mechanism induced by petal architecture from a Papaveraceae species [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Secondary pollen presentation (SPP) is a reproductive strategy that enhances the efficiency of pollen transfer, which has been explored for more than 200 years, resulting in 10 identified types of SPP.
Shanlin Yang +3 more
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Honey Bee Viruses in Wild Bees: Viral Prevalence, Loads, and Experimental Inoculation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Evidence of inter-species pathogen transmission from managed to wild bees has sparked concern that emerging diseases could be causing or exacerbating wild bee declines.
Adam G Dolezal +7 more
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The bee fauna of an Atlantic coastal plain tidal marsh community in Southern New England, USA [PDF]
, 2019 With growing evidence of changes in local abundance, geographical range, and species diversity of wild bees, it is imperative to document wild bee communities in representative habitats throughout North America.
Stoner, Kimberly A., Zarrillo, Tracy A.
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