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Wooded Semi-Natural Habitats Complement Permanent Grasslands in Supporting Wild Bee Diversity in Agricultural Landscapes

Insects, 2020
Loss of semi-natural habitats (SNH) in agricultural landscapes affects wild bees, often negatively. However, how bee communities respond varies and is still unclear. To date, few studies have used precise descriptors to understand these effects.
Justine Rivers-Moore, Emilie Andrieu, Aude Vialatte, Annie Ouin   +3 more
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Honey bee hives decrease wild bee abundance, species richness, and fruit count on farms regardless of wildflower strips

Scientific Reports, 2021
Pollinator refuges such as wildflower strips are planted on farms with the goals of mitigating wild pollinator declines and promoting crop pollination services.
G. M. Angelella, C. T. McCullough, M. E. O’Rourke   +2 more
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Neonicotinoid Sunflower Seed Treatment, While Not Detected in Pollen and Nectar, Still Impacts Wild Bees and Crop Yield

Agrochemicals, 2023
Neonicotinoid seed treatments are commonly used in agricultural production even though their benefit to crop yield and their impact on pollinators, particularly wild bees, remains unclear.
Laura T. Ward, Michelle L. Hladik, Aidee Guzman, Ariana Bautista, Nicholas J. Mills   +4 more
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Environmental variables and species traits as drivers of wild bee pollination in intensive agroecosystems—A metabarcoding approach

Environmental DNA, 2023
Wild bees are known to be efficient pollinators of wild plants and cultivated crops and they are essential ecosystem service providers. However, wild bee populations have been suffering from significant declines in the last decades mainly due to the use ...
Marina Querejeta, Lorène Marchal, Paul Pfeiffer, Marilyn Roncoroni, Vincent Bretagnolle, Sabrina Gaba, Stéphane Boyer   +6 more
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Analysis of Pollination Services Provided by Wild and Managed Bees (Apoidea) in Wild Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton) Production in Maine, USA, with a Literature Review

Agronomy, 2020
Maine is the largest producer of wild blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium Aiton) in the United States. Pollination comes from combinations of honey bees (Apis mellifera (L.)), commercial bumble bees (Bombus impatiens Cresson), and wild bees.
Sara L. Bushmann, Francis A. Drummond
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Evaluating competition for forage plants between honey bees and wild bees in Denmark.

PLoS ONE, 2021
A recurrent concern in nature conservation is the potential competition for forage plants between wild bees and managed honey bees. Specifically, that the highly sophisticated system of recruitment and large perennial colonies of honey bees quickly ...
Claus Rasmussen, Yoko L Dupont, Henning Bang Madsen, Petr Bogusch, Dave Goulson, Lina Herbertsson, Kate Pereira Maia, Anders Nielsen, Jens M Olesen, Simon G Potts, Stuart P M Roberts, Markus Arne Kjær Sydenham, Per Kryger   +12 more
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Identifying wild bee visitors of major crops in North America with notes on potential threats from agricultural practices

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Considering the critical importance of insect pollination to food security and documented declines in wild bee populations, it is imperative to develop effective conservation and management strategies that promote the health of wild bee communities ...
Sabrina Rondeau, D. Susan Willis Chan, D. Susan Willis Chan, Alana Pindar   +3 more
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Sow Wild! Effective Methods and Identification Bias in Pollinator-Focused Experimental Citizen Science

Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 2023
A common debate on the value of citizen science projects is the accuracy of data collected and the validity of conclusions drawn. Sow Wild! was a hypothesis-driven citizen science project that investigated the benefits of sowing a 4 m2 mini-meadow in ...
Janine Griffiths-Lee, Elizabeth Nicholls, Dave Goulson   +2 more
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Optimised Internet of Thing framework based hybrid meta‐heuristic algorithms for E‐healthcare monitoring

IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Everything can be connected in the Internet of Things (IoTs) technology that enables efficient communication between connected objects. IoTs industry‐based meta‐heuristic and mining algorithms, which are considered an important field of Artificial Intelligence will be used to construct a healthcare application in this study for lowering costs,
Muhaned Al‐Hashimi, Shymaa Mohammed Jameel, Firas Husham Almukhtar, Musaddak Maher Abdul Zahra, Refed Adnan Jaleel   +4 more
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Sudden collapse of xylophilous bee populations in the mountains of northern Utah (USA): An historical illustration [PDF]

Alpine Entomology, 2022
A scarcity of studies of the dynamics of wild bee populations hampers conservation efforts by bee ecologists and conservationists. Present limited information suggests that bee populations are highly unpredictable from year-to-year.
Vincent J. Tepedino, Frank D. Parker
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