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Do managed bees have negative effects on wild bees?: A systematic review of the literature.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Managed bees are critical for crop pollination worldwide. As the demand for pollinator-dependent crops increases, so does the use of managed bees. Concern has arisen that managed bees may have unintended negative impacts on native wild bees, which are ...
Rachel E Mallinger +2 more
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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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Oregon Bee Atlas: native bee findings from 2018
Catalog: Oregon State Arthropod Collection, 2021 The Oregon Bee Atlas is a new volunteer-led effort to characterize the bee fauna of Oregon State by collecting, preparing, and databasing native bee species and capturing plant host records. In 2018, volunteers collected 11,044 bee specimens across 33 Oregon counties, representing ...
Lincoln Best +5 more
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Ecosphere, 2022 Long‐term variation in the population density of introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) has been shown to be associated with variations in floral traits in alpine lotus (Saussurea nigrescens).
Ruijun Su +7 more
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Current Research in Insect Science, 2022 Worldwide, the use of managed bees for crop pollination and honey production has increased dramatically. Concerns about the pressures of these increases on native ecosystems has resulted in a recent expansion in the literature on this subject. To collate
Jay M. Iwasaki, Katja Hogendoorn
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Biology, 2021 The flowers of plants of the genus Ludwigia are an important source of food for several species of bees. In the current study, we conducted an experiment with the aim to describe the reproductive biology and phenology of L.
Eliana Aparecida Ferreira +3 more
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Insects, 2021 Megachile sculpturalis (Smith, 1853) is the first exotic bee species in Europe. Its remarkably fast expansion across this continent is leading to a growing concern on the extent of negative impacts to the native fauna.
Sara Straffon-Díaz +4 more
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Wild Bee Pollen Diets Reveal Patterns of Seasonal Foraging Resources for Honey Bees
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Western honey bees (Apis mellifera) are dominant crop pollinators, and access to summer forage is a critical factor influencing colony health in agricultural landscapes.
Thomas James Wood +2 more
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Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of the Chicago Area: Diversity and Habitat Use in an Urbanized Landscape [PDF]
, 2018 Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) were collected at 24 sites chosen to represent the diversity of urban and natural habitats in the Chicago metropolitan area. Species richness was assessed for each site.
Molumby, Alan, Przybylowicz, Tomasz
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Positive and Negative Impacts of Non-Native Bee Species around the World
Insects, 2016 Though they are relatively understudied, non-native bees are ubiquitous and have enormous potential economic and environmental impacts. These impacts may be positive or negative, and are often unquantified.
Laura Russo
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