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Diversity and distribution of orchid bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae, Euglossini) in Belize. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Background Orchid bees are abundant and widespread in the Neotropics, where males are important pollinators of orchids they visit to collect fragrant chemicals later used to court females.
O'Neill KM +4 more
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Orchid bees enhance seed set production of an understory herb in the Western Brazilian Amazon
Journal of Pollination Ecology, 2023 Bee pollination is an important ecosystem service related to the maintenance of many flowering plants. We evaluated the relationship between orchid bee foraging time and the density of flowering plants and whether visitation varied according to the sex ...
Thaline Brito +4 more
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Revista Chilena de Entomología, 2023 Orchid bees are a conspicuous and ecologically important group of insects, commonly distributed at medium and low altitudes in tropical ecosystems. Therefore, new recordings of orchid bees at higher altitudes are interesting.
Manuela Burbano, Michelle Armijos
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Acta Amazonica, 2021 Riparian forests are important ecosystems that support an enormous biodiversity in Brazil. Despite being protected under Brazilian legislation, these forests suffer great impact from the fragmentation of habitats.
Maria Eliene Maia Braga CÂNDIDO +2 more
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Orchid bees as bioindicators of the state of conservation of a forest
Manglar, 2022 Bioindicators are organisms that determine the environmental impact of an ecosystem and euglossine are used for responding to environmental changes, they are easy to observe, and their taxonomy is well known.
Bleysin Rojas +4 more
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Long‐term (1979–2019) dynamics of protected orchid bees in Panama
Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 Plants and pollinators are linked but their dynamics are scarcely known. Chemical monitoring of male “orchid bees” at two sites revealed 75% of species were stable or increasing.
David W. Roubik +5 more
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Sociobiology, 2019 This work discusses the criteria proposed to consider wild bees as bioindicators and specifically applied to orchid bees in neotropical forests. Some of the issues are: 1) the deficiencies of the sampling methods, which makes it difficult to accurately ...
Yostin Añino +2 more
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European Journal of EntomologyBody mass is an important morphological trait, which is associated with the physiology and ecology of insects. In the past, estimates of body mass were often based on general mathematical equations in which body mass was related to linear measurements of
Yostin AÑINO +5 more
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Anthropogenic effects on the body size of two neotropical orchid bees. [PDF]
BMC Ecol Evol, 2022 To accommodate an ever-increasing human population, agriculture is rapidly intensifying at the expense of natural habitat, with negative and widely reported effects on biodiversity in general and on wild bee abundance and diversity in particular.
Garlin J +5 more
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Flower use by late nineteenth-century orchid bees (Eufriesea surinamensis, Hymenoptera, Apidae) nesting in the Catedral Basílica Santa María la Antigua de Panamá [PDF]
Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 2019 A recent restoration of the Basilica Cathedral in Casco Viejo, Panamá, revealed that prior to 1871–1876 female orchid bees (Eufriesea surinamensis) built large nesting aggregations high above the main altar, based on physical evidence dating to a ...
Paola Galgani-Barraza +5 more
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